Word: distrust
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...Arabs were losing. If the roles had been reversed, so might have been the treatment of reporters. As it was, all the legitimate news was coming out of Israel, and little more than wishful thinking was trickling out of the Arab states; most newspapers decided early to distrust Arab victory claims. The New York Times displayed a hardly necessary impartiality by publishing Arab and Israeli accounts side by side, with little indication of which was the more credible. The paper did get unusually excited, though; for four days straight it used three-deck, eight-column headlines -something that it seldom...
Many came to distrust people who wanted to "change" other people, suspecting that many of these reformers were trying to prove the superiority of their goals to themselves as much as to their subjects. In social service, they wanted to learn as well as teach--open new opportunities to Negroes in Roxbury, or criminals in local prisons, but a so absorb new perspectives and perceptions. Their doubts about the "system" thus led them to seek wisdom from those who had been kicked out of it, the men and women who had been denied a place in that great race...
...same collection, he could be familial and tender: Gone now the baby's nurse/a lioness who ruled the roost/ and made the Mother cry. Yet even in his more resigned moments, he really seemed to distrust tranquillity: Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small...
...people, so they say he's a boozer. You can't win. Because I don't like cocktail parties, some writers translate this to mean 'Carson is hostile to people.' " If he is not precisely hostile, he at least shares a celebrity's distrust of strangers-and distrust sometimes seeps over into contempt. Johnny and Joanne are people who do not need people. "Johnny," says McMahon, putting it mildly, "is not overly outgoing or affectionate. He doesn't give friendship easily or need it. He packs a tight suitcase." One lady author...
...involve casualties but at less risk of world war and with a chance of somewhat diminishing the international odium we have brought upon ourselves. While our barbarity merely rouses fear and hatred that we can learn to live with, our psychological miscalculation seems stupid. Stupidity in a leader arouses distrust in followers all around the world...