Word: distruster
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...beleaguered Beame has to shepherd the city through a crisis he did not create. But the mayor has a few advantages. A homespun accountant who joined the city government in 1946, he can speak to the civil servants with rolled-up-sleeves rapport. Union members do not distrust him, as they did John Lindsay. Unlike Lindsay, who was always feuding with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Abe Beame gets along well with Governor Hugh Carey - an asset in a city that receives almost one-third of its budget from the state. In addition, the city's ambitious comptroller, Harrison Goldin...
Norris and Ross McWhirter acknowledge no limits to their distrust. In 22 years compiling 13 editions of the Guinness Book of World Records--which they insist is "not like Ripley's Believe it or Not"--they have learned that no unauthenticated claim can be accepted, that "the strictures which apply to giants apply equally to dwarfs, except that exaggeration gives way to understatement." The strictures even apply to the McWhirter family. It is not that Ross McWhirter disbelieves his grandfather. He simply wants to state the fact correctly...
Curiously, O'Hanlon's distaste for the old ways is matched by his distrust of the new. Ireland's energetic attempts to attract industry (and keep some of the natives at home) is described as "the selling of Ireland to foreign investors...
...September 1, 1939. Lindbergh became a leader in the fight to keep America out of the war a cause which rallied people from all ends of the political spectrum from the German American Bond to the Communist Party, but which never won the support or even succeeded mitigating the distrust, of a majority of the American people...
...Jerusalem, at least, Kissinger's problem was complicated by increasing Israeli distrust of his motives as well as nagging fears that his step-by-step diplomacy would harm Israel in the end. Ha'aretz, Israel's most influential newspaper, worried about the impact of Kissinger's peace plans: "It is not clear enough if the American Secretary of State intends to mediate between Israel and Egypt in full awareness that there is a partnership between us and the U.S., or whether he wants to succeed at any price, a price that Israel alone will have...