Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Logicians v. Carpet Knights. Psychologicall, De Gaulle elaborated, France and Germany were doomed to "a constant state of mutual distrust." And for what reason? In his rolling prose he apostrophized both peoples...
...Amid the ruins, mourning and humiliation which had submerged Germany, I felt my sense of distrust and severity fade within me. I even glimpsed possibilities of understanding which the past had never offered. Moreover, it seemed to me that the same sentiment was dawning on our soldiers. The thirst for vengeance which had spurred them on at first had abated as they advanced across the ravaged earth. I saw them merciful before the misery of the vanquished...
...Jewish leaders "to decide among themselves precisely what they conceive to be the final objective of the Jewish community-in a word, what bargain they are willing to strike as one of the minorities in a pluralistic society. When court victories produce only a harvest of fear and distrust, will it all have been worthwhile?" "Threatening & Patronizing." Jewish leaders responded as if the Jesuits had suggested that this was a good time for a pogrom. "America performs a disservice in raising the spectre of anti-Semitism," said Rabbi Elmer Berger of the American Council for Judaism. In a joint statement...
...bargain" that Jews should strike, arguing that pluralism gives every minority the right to work for any political end it sincerely wants. "Have Catholics been deterred from pressing their views in the legislatures and courts by the worry that victory might produce 'a harvest of fear and distrust'? Your editorial suggests that all necessary steps be taken to prevent increased antiSemitism. One necessary step, it would appear to us, would be for America to denounce the intrusion of religious bigotry into public debate, and warn its readers against it.'' A more definitive answer came from...
Holed up in the rugged, isolated mountain country that straddles the borders of Syria, Turkey, Iran, Russia and Iraq, the Kurds are a rebellious, trigger-happy breed who distrust the Arabs and traditionally hanker after little more than a fine horse, a good rifle, and a woman who can bear strong sons. For the past year, however, Iraq's Kurds have been in open revolt, last April demanded an autonomous Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Led by Red-leaning Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (religious teacher) who spent twelve years of exile in Russia, Kurdish rebels have seized control...