Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...badly irrigated soil with tools of a thousand years ago. Most of his cow's dung cannot be used as fertilizer, for it is needed as fuel; his patch of land is tiny, and his life is mortgaged to the local moneylender or landlord. He has a deep distrust of foreigners' slick schemes for greater yields; yet the fate of all of India's 415 million depends on the stubborn peasant's ability to expand production. Six years from now, crowded India will have 80 million more mouths to feed; unless output is raised drastically, there...
...Smith that endeared him to big-city working-class Americans of Irish, Latin, Slavic and Jewish origins tended to repel older-stock Protestant Americans, some who were dedicated to Prohibition with religious fervor, and some who opposed Prohibition but joined in looking with dislike-or at least distrust-upon big cities, foreign accents and the Roman Catholic Church...
...three years since Suez have clearly not dissipated the distrust of the U.S. and contempt for the U.N. that the crisis evoked in right-wing British breasts. One of Eden's most influential advisers, the stooping, bespectacled Marquess of Salisbury (then Lord President of the Council), scornfully commented: "The fact that other members of the United Nations were not prepared, for whatever reasons, to do their duty [at Suez] was surely no excuse for us not doing ours...
...Machiavelli's time, an ambassador was expected to bribe a ruler's servants, seduce his wife and, in a pinch, kill him. As late as the 17th century, a member of the House of Commons seen talking to a foreign diplomat might lose his seat. If such distrust lingers today, it is probably because a great many governments and their representatives still practice what Louis XI of France advised his ambassadors in the 15th century: "If they lie to you, see to it you lie much more to them...