Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aspirin & Cigarettes. A onetime crusading aide to the late Senator Estes Kefauver, Rand Dixon works hard at appearing more reasonable than he used to be. When he became boss in 1961, he scarcely concealed his distrust of big business, often squabbled with his four commissioners. Frustrated by the fights on high and uneasy about the commission's broad and petty swoops on business, many of the brightest young FTC lawyers quit. Dixon did some hard thinking. He fought the morale problem by pushing pay raises and speeding promotions, began to side with staffers more sympathetic to business; recently...
...distrust is easily pierced. Last Friday I visited Walker's Cafe, where the Rev. James J. had eaten right before he was murdered. As left the restaurant, several white gangs stared me from across the street. On my side of the groups of Negroes leaning against store- eyed me hostilely. Finally the loneliness new unbearable. I raised my eyes to a young man. "How are you, brother?" I whispered. A broad smile instantly spread across his face. , and his friends strolled up to shake hand. The whites across the street looked and then sauntered off. No doubt they too that...
...struggle for world hegemony, ours is a holding action. An aggressive opponent will always find the most politically embarrassing ground on which to oppose you. Vietnam is no exception. To end this struggle between the Communists and the West a world police force is needed, but the powers distrust each other too much to make that possible. Until the police force becomes a reality, the U.S. must oppose the mass of human resources the totalitarians can marshal with everything at its command...
...dismay over the new hostility toward them was vented on Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and the CDU-which could conceivably lose the national elections in September over the Middle East fiasco, as CDU strategists privately admitted. But the issue went deeper than German politics. Protesting against the "new wave of distrust," Die Zeit in a front-page editorial noted that there is a "new generation" of Germans which knows Nazi crimes "only from history books and which therefore finds it hard to comprehend that being a German is a flaw of birth. For the sake of this generation...
...defend them under all foreseeable circumstances, particularly a decade or two hence, when it may be disastrously involved in Latin America, Asia or Africa. And De Gaulle argues that the U.S. has always been "late" in entering European wars; yet the U.S. can reply with equal distrust that virtually since Waterloo, France has been gravely wanting as a resolute military power. The U.S. must look to a France after De Gaulle, with a large Communist vote and the political chaos of the Fourth Republic conceivably revived...