Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist China also appeared, claiming to be a new power center of international politics in Asia. Since the U.S. has kept its concern in this area keen--in terms of seeking better deployment for its national interest, the two powers went very rapidly into rivalry. As is obvious, mutual distrust has ensued...
...juste. "Epithalamion for Tyler" honors a friend woh has sewn a pig's ear to his sofa, and with it has "spirited" talks; no other word could have attributed to the friend the same aspect of intelligent playfulness. Then, too, Tate never dulls our brains or arouses our distrust by "poeticism," by obsolete ploys. He even lampoons such lapses of tact, as he prepares to hit us: with some genuine midcentury currency, as in, "The Cages...
Although halting the bombing might bring "more hope for negotiations," Reischauer said, there is little prospect of such a settlement "simply because the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese are so far apart and so distrust each other...
...statement of crimes" required by the National Defense Education Act needlessly singles out students as objects of suspicion and distrust. It demands that any undergraduate or graduate applying for NDEA money report convictions of all crimes and traffic violations punishable by more than a $25 fine. No other recipients of government largesse -- farmers or social security beneficiaries, for example -- are obligated to sign such a statement...
This portion of the act, an ugly monument to Congressional suspicion of scholarship, should follow the way of the disclaimer. Requiring young people whose education is supposed to be vital to the national defense to prove they are law-abiding and loyal can only lead to mutual distrust. If the government can't demonstrate some faith in students, they are not likely to show much confidence in return...