Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lacking educational opportunities and skills, they were victims of a vicious exploitive system under which each family gave three man-days of labor every week in return for a meager plot of land on which to live and farm. A "serf" mentality, inability to make decisions, and complete distrust of outsiders after centuries of being cheated, beaten, and exploited made progress impossible. Vicos and many similar haciendas remained feudal anachronisms in a rapidly changing country...
Close & Candid. So far, Goldberg has had few failures-and his successes have made him one of the most respected members of the New Frontier. Some management men distrust him because of his background as counsel for the A.F.L.C.I.O. and as a driving force behind nearly every major union gain in the past twelve years. Goldberg readily admits that he has not shed his sympathy for labor. "I'll be honest about it," he says. "It's obvious that any man takes to any job an essential set of attitudes. I have not brainwashed myself." But Arthur Goldberg...
...that any school-aid bill this session was "dead as slavery." But the President insisted that his congressional leaders keep trying to turn up some compromise-almost any compromise-that would satisfy the House, where the issue of aid to public schools was roiled by religious rancor and segregationist distrust. Last week President Kennedy learned the hard way that Rayburn had been right. In the Administration's second major legislative defeat of the week, the House voted down a diluted school bill by the humiliating margin...
Russian Jews view Editor Aron Ver-gelis, a short, stocky man with a shadowy background, with deep distrust. They suspect him of having worked for Stalin's secret police during World War II, and of holding the job of political commissar. One of the few Yiddish writers to escape interrogation, torture, and death during the Stalin purges, Vergelis got right to work at the politics of survival during the thaw that followed Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin. After the Suez invasion, Vergelis dashed off a Yiddish poem furiously attacking Israel. "We will force our enemies to surrender...
...this with no power of the purse. It cannot write budgets or set tax rates, instead appeals for money to the city's Board of Estimate. In turn, the Democratic city depends on the Republican state legislature for nearly one-third of its school funds. With distrust rampant, school budgets become political compromises...