Word: distruster
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...this day and age of the vulnerable and non-aggressive male it is difficult to say no to another in a long line of complaints about us men by women who seem to even distrust us for being the side of the human species we are. I agree that it was wrong for you to be treated as you were by the detectives, Ms. Sharp, but I cannot agree that the incident is another case of men not acting as they should, perhaps a la Dustin Hoffman, but as they must because, after all, they were...
...prose is remarkably untortured, simply but elegantly stated. For her, Robert Lowell "learned to tame the apocalyptic to the eternal dailiness of life"; Sylvia Plath "would like, in distrust of mind, to trust nature, and yet she...refuses nature any honorable estate of its own"; of Frank O'Hara, "The wish not to impute significance has rarely been stronger in lyric poetry...
...they left the polling places. Manhattan Lawyer Jesse Epstein voted for Kennedy "to wake Carter up." A 50-year-old White Plains freelance writer supported Kennedy to protest Carter's economic policies. Said she: "I'm not pro-Kennedy in any way. I have a basic distrust of the man." Ithaca Magazine Editor Bryant Robey, 39, regarded his ballot for Kennedy as a "message to Carter that I no longer know where he stands on the issues. Leadership is not taking a poll and trying to jump ahead...
...retrieval of the fabulous wealth he has plundered. The Panamanian government, encouraged by Washington and prominent pro-Shah U.S. citizens, played games and lied to us all along. We are not back to Square One. But we have lost considerable ground because of the people's renewed distrust of international...
...People wouldn't be human if they didn't have some reservations and remain on their guard. This sort of suspicion and distrust exists in some form or another in all three of the forces. It's the kind of problem that we have to take into account, but beat...