Word: distrust
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...known to believe that if the more delicate messages between allies come out, there will be enormous embarrassment and distrust of the U.S. in a number of countries that jeopardized their diplomatic credibility to aid the U.S. Even more serious is the likelihood that young people are now just not going to believe in the Government, in their institutions, and in their history...
...felt the excitement of otherwise only time I truly became a student and felt the excitement of otherwise petty intellectualizing was when I had a one-to-one junior tutorial (on Christopher Marlowe for God's sake) in which the excitement generated on a personal level. It is this distrust of impersonal programming, which makes the draft board, lurking in the wings ready to pounce off of its collective pudgy white buttocks, so despicable-even disregarding the business of hate and the wholesale murder it promotes. And it is the reason that even good or necessary action often promotes fear...
...years of college and a year as a social worker, he joined the force in 1959. But Serpico never joined the club. He rarely spent off-duty time with coworkers, would not enter the "us and them" clannishness that leads many police to view all non-cops with some distrust. He invested eight years getting a B.A. in sociology at City College of New York night school and moved to a Greenwich Village bachelor pad with a distinctly hippie tone and a menagerie of pets, including a sheepdog. After he became a plainclothesman he sprouted a beard. His fellow cops...
...entering office, Kissinger abandoned the idea of negotiating a "decent interval" with the North Vietnamese. Many factors could have contributed to his change of position: the North Vietnamese may have met such a suggestion with skepticism and distrust; and it was unclear that Nixon had ever approved of the interval idea at all, that he was willing to sacrifice the Saigon regime in talks with Hanoi. In any event, the decent interval was transformed into what was known in White House jargon as "firebreak"; the United States would leave Vietnam in a show of military force, and only after Saigon...
...buying the Japanese yen, the world's most obviously undervalued money, which is likely to rise within several months. The speculation was mild only because Japan tightly controls the exchange of yen, leaving little available for purchase abroad. The price of gold, the traditional refuge for savers who distrust paper money, jumped in London to a 21-month high of $41.50 an ounce...