Word: distrust
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Methodist officials are understandably embarrassed by the situation, since they support Oxnam in his desire to improve the university but do not want the divinity school to lose its luster. Unfortunately, the atmosphere of distrust and discouragement at the seminary is such that there now seems to be no way to halt its decline-and Oxnam may find it difficult to hire qualified replacements for the men who have already quit...
...Blasto-tank-with-twin-rocket -launchers -by -Slambang -Toys." Once he gets it, though, he is invariably disappointed because the toy is always much smaller and much less exciting than it looked on the overdramatized commercial. Thus Video Boy learns a basic lesson of TV viewing: distrust...
...with the faculty. The professors, in turn, operated in "a milieu of confusion and uncertainty"-not to mention indifference-with respect to their powers. Too many students, the report said, displayed "an appallingly high rate of disaffection and disinterest toward" their own education. The result was "an atmosphere of distrust and suspicion...
...Latins with whom we work understand this better than most North Americans who are employed by the Peace Corps. It is the reason that so many of them distrust our organization, remain skeptical of its rhetoric of generosity. They read, for example, that we are part of an Alliance for Progress that they have begun to regard as a State Department gimmick. They see us working side by side with other officials of the US government to accomplish programs, which are in the view of many Latins, part of the US' world wide struggle against Communism, not a genuine desire...
...distrusted the dour pragmatism of Boumediene, 42, who methodically dismantled the chaotic collective farms and factories set up by Ben Bella in favor of a system of state capitalism that at least forestalled the collapse of all production. His distrust grew to resentment as Boumediene filled his Cabinet with technocrats. The resentment turned to outright rebellion when the President began easing the old guerrilla chiefs out of their army commands and installing officers with solid professional military training in their places...