Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee on cultural exchange, which included Rosenblum, proposed that America vigorously encourage an exchange of people from all social strata, not just students and politicians, to emphasize the essential similarities of the two national groups and to dispel distrust of their superficial differences...
...skillfully applied toward the common aspirations of humanity, then a world of peace and plenty becomes a high probability. The free nations of the world have the capacity and can develop the will to overcome together the powerful, perplexing forces which for thousands of years have yielded hate, distrust, poverty...
...seems to me that the press is as much an instrument in fomenting and preserving a state of hatred and distrust between this country's people and those of Russia (particularly her leaders) as any actual misdeeds by Russia may have been. You bring out Khrushchev's faults and choose to minimize or ignore the possibility of his sincerity. I am proud, and not afraid, to admire Mr. Khrushchev for what may well be genuine overtures in the direction of peace. I shall trust him. I shall not condemn him and slap him when he puts forth...
Secretly, silently, the plotters prevailed upon Radcliffe authorities to appraise the situation "rationally." Zealously they disseminated doubt and distrust in the minds and hearts of the powerful. Jealously they plotted against the innocent pleasures of the multitudes. Tirelessly they labored under their banner of sombre black. And this fall they finally achieved success...
...anything, the job of Foreign Office Spokesman Peter Hope was even worse. Suave, suntanned, handkerchief in his sleeve-embodying, as the Observer wrote, "the Foreign Office's distrust of the whole notion of press relations"-Hope applied his cool diction to reciting the food consumed by Eisenhower and Macmillan ("Charentais melon, sole Duglere"), pausing to spell out words down to and including m-e-l-o-n for the benefit of reporters...