Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaskell nonetheless worked under two handicaps: 1) a good many facts were not available to her, and 2) Charlotte's stiff-necked husband regarded her with wary distrust. Now another English novelist, named Margaret Lane, has hit upon the happy idea of interweaving long sections from Mrs. Gaskell's book with a narrative of her own which amplifies the earlier work. The result, says modest Author Lane, is "a sort of footnote to Mrs. Gaskell." It is one of the most readable, least academic footnotes ever dropped...
...best, the offer was designed to sow tension and distrust among Red flyers, keep flight leaders so busy worrying about out-of-sight pilots that they would not be able to tend to their business. There was even the possibility that, to prevent defection, the Reds might ration fuel, thus limiting the time the MIGs can stay in the air to patrol and fight...
Being a war correspondent in the 1860s was in some ways tougher than being an infantryman. The foot soldier had to contend with nothing worse than mud, hardtack and the enemy's shot & shell. The war correspondent had to face all these things plus the wrath and distrust of such generals as William Tecumseh Sherman: "Dirty newspaper scribblers." Sherman called them. "They come into camp, poke about among the lazy shirks and pick up their camp rumors and publish them as facts ... I will treat them as spies, which in truth they...
Clouded in suspicion and distrust of their loyalty, all twenty-three will certainly suffer from the Pentagon's half-secret, ambiguous statements. Their names have been released, yet no satisfactory explanation has been offered for the continued observation. The longer the Army keeps these men confined, the larger public suspicion will grow...
After reading your article ... I have these comments to make: there is a rising tide of Puritanism in America. The last election proves it; McCarthyism proves it; the constant battering of liberals proves it; the general distrust of intellectuals proves it; and the favorable reception to your article proves it. And what is this neo-Puritanism? It is an authoritarian morality that is completely intolerant of opposition; a prudishness in support of that morality; a passive and negative philosophy of life, purporting to leave all to a God that is no less prudish (the doctrine of original sin), no less...