Word: distrust
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...choice in a century" between two programs and philosophies. If McGovern is turning off the voters to the extent that the latest polls suggest, it is nearly impossible to determine to what degree they are resisting his program?or their perception of it?and to what extent they merely distrust his effectiveness as a leader...
Other wives are protesting the protesters, saying that they do not want the public to think all Navy wives distrust their husbands. But beyond that, something may possibly survive of the ancient superstition that women aboard ship bring evil luck. It may be that the origin of that superstition is just now coming to the surface...
They will first have to get past the less than merry wives of Norfolk. Led by Mrs. Barbara Stone, wife of a petty officer, five women have begun circulating a protest petition. Their reasons are blunt. Asked if the petition did not betray a certain conjugal distrust, Mrs. Stone snapped, "You're right. I don't trust mine." Said another mate: "It's different aboard ship. If it's the only game in town, my husband is going to play...
Here are on-the-spot sketches of civil rights workers of a long decade ago, brought up to date. Coles does not mind the inevitable inconsistencies, for distrust of certainty is his passion. The certainty of fellow psychiatrists, for instance, who "misuse their own professional language" to smuggle value judgments under the guise of science. The certainty of the social scientist "who has a name or a label for everything and wants at all costs to be 'concerned' and 'involved.' " The certainty of the Northern liberal who adds "ignorance, recklessness, and self-righteousness" to his original...
...patient from thinking about whatever it is that he is preoccupied with." Other experts suggest that the shock somehow shakes up the brain so that "things fall back into their normal places." It is largely because of the lack of scientific understanding about its workings that many psychiatrists distrust the treatment...