Word: distruster
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...mutual distrust and suspicion on the part of the two institutions stymied for the past four years any forward momentum toward defining Radcliffe and its role in the University...
...Distrust. Despite a few antipress outbursts, the Sunbelt Republicans, who provided most of the convention action, appeared to have outgrown their old distrust of the Eastern-based networks. "They have discovered what protesting students and blacks discovered a decade ago," concluded Columnist Joseph Kraft. "They have come to know how to play media games." Indeed, in many ways the convention was a manipulated-for-TV event. President Ford and Ronald Reagan scheduled their arrivals in Kansas City to ensure live coverage on the ABC and CBS pre-convention specials. The Ford forces posted two men in trailers just outside...
...gold hoard, or 25 million ounces. Meanwhile, the economic conditions that triggered the gold boom of 1973-74 have largely disappeared. The dollar is steady, world inflation rates have come down and the general panic set off by the oil crisis has abated. All those trends reduce the distrust of paper money that moves many speculators to put their funds in gold...
...runs strong in the new Methodist movement and in the New England cities, less so in the Middle Colonies. Anglicans in the south generally favor independence. FRIENDS (307). The "Quakers," powerful in Pennsylvania, oppose all wars, including the Revolution. Their January meeting insisted on obedience to the King. Patriots distrust their pacifism but so far have done little against them. LUTHERANS (240). Located mostly in the Middle Colonies, these Germans, like Peter Muhlenberg, generally want to split from England...
...still uncompleted story, those who distrust reason have had the better of the argument. Given total liberty, men seem too often to steer toward the state of savagery as if that were their true, natural home. There is also the possibility that reason in time will lose the religious and moral grounding it has today and turn into a mere mechanical instrument, unable to guide man through his most difficult problems. The Americans, however, may yet write a new, brighter chapter to man's story. While trusting in reason as no other men in government have before them...