Word: distrust
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...confrontation politics, drawing the line, negotiating from strength. The United States, emerging unscathed as the world's most powerful nation after World War II, could have used its extraordinary might to promote a peaceful detente with a much weakened and brutalized postwar Soviet Union, but chose instead to promote distrust, interventionism, and encirclement...
...years, the Middle East crisis has centered on emnity between distrustful rivals. Last week it focused on a deep uneasiness, even a distrust, between two close and intimate allies. The dispute involved an issue that Israel deemed vital to her security; the continued buildup of Soviet missilery in the 32-mile-wide cease-fire zone on the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal. For its part, the U.S. would have preferred to overlook the missile buildup in an effort to get the peace negotiations moving under the direction of U.N. Special Representative Gunnar Jarring. The Israelis, who say that...
...Papillon will fare in the New World is not entirely clear. Its author will surely grow richer and more famous, but he may not be read so avidly as he was in France. As a man he seems both hard to dislike or profoundly distrust. But his story often seems too good to be true, and raises the question of just how much Sunday supplemental escapee-from-Devil's Island experience he has incorporated as his own. For example, on one cavale (escape) he gets help from an island full of lepers, and when one hands him some coffee...
...Singapore government repealed all exchange restrictions and interest-withholding taxes on deposits from foreigners, and promised to keep the identity of the depositors secret. Such secrecy is important to the Overseas Chinese, the merchant class of Southeast Asia. They feel-quite justifiably-that they have become targets for distrust in many countries where they operate...
Brecht's use of the revolution as a background on which to play an unsentimental low comedy, one almost hammed by the distrust of human sensibility of a Ben Jonson, is hard to figure out. He was 22 when he wrote the play, perhaps he was not yet confident to deal head-on with the real issues of the revolution. His later, more radical plays, evolved a whole new kind of theater. In "Drums" there are hints of his presentational mode; the characters often seem to step outside of themselves, the bourgeois are prototype bourgeois, the proletarians a somewhat unsympathetic...