Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation in Eastern Europe freed itself without Red Army help, that nation was Yugoslavia. And if any other country came to Socialism owing the Soviet Union no military debt, that country is Cuba. The Soviet distrust of Castro and his colleagues, today so easily forgotten, parallele the Stalinist distrust of the independently victorious Josip Broz Tito. Just as Tito did in the late '40s, Castro has found it necessary to dismiss those politicians who regard the USSR as their patria. Finally, it was a dispute over military autonomy that catalyzed the Yugoslav-Soviet conflict. The same could hold true...
...brutalized existence of the serf and the stagnating intelligentsia. In 1890. he journeyed 10,000 miles to write a report on the penal colony on Sakhalin Island. He built schools for peasants and treated their ills for nothing. But he could not shake off a medical man's distrust of all panaceas. Whether it was Communism, Tolstoy's windy plans for the spiritual regeneration of mankind, or Dostoevsky's wild chiaroscuro Christianity, Chekhov could see no practical help in any of them. "God preserve us from generalizations," he wrote. "There are a great many opinions in this...
Inevitably, on November 17, the Corporation voted to reject the funds, in a joint announcement with Yale. President Pusey wrote the Commissioner of Education that the disclaimer "is discriminatory since it singles out students alone in our population--and among students, the neediest--as subjects for special distrust...
...seem novel to seniors to see praise for Lunden on the CRIMSON's pages, but Lunden is working hard to be accommodating and his efforts are very helpful. Instead of appearing to harbor a deep distrust of students, he seems very anxious to assist them...
...Netherlands' giant (1961 sales: $1.4 billion) Philips Lamp, is proud that members of his family now own less than 1% of the stock. "If the stockholders decide I am doing a bad job," says Philips, "I go." And in Germany, where hired managers have traditionally been regarded with distrust, Steel Scion Alfried Krupp has given unprecedented authority to his general manager, Berthold Beitz. Among old-line Krupp executives, Beitz's breezy manner has won him the not entirely complimentary nickname der Amerikaner, but he has succeeded in diversifying the company from purely heavy industry into trading and construction...