Word: distruster
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...credence to our own stated goals, feel no control over our own day to day activity, sense real estrangement between ourselves and those with whom we work, and atrophy while feeling that there is something else we should be doing if only we could define it. It is our distrust of ourselves that leads us to look for leadership elsewhere; it's because we are alienated from the people closest to us that leadership must come from a distant figure. Hence, we continue to pick our glorified candidates, mortals upon whom we bestow an imagined "gift of grace...
...rehabilitation programs, religious freedom, increased mail privileges. Three newsmen allowed into the cellblock at the prisoners' request heard echoes of Attica in the inmates' demands. Associated Press Correspondent Carl Zeitz, one of the three, wrote later: "Inmates crowded to the bars, each hotly stating his grievances: distrust of officials, contempt for the police and the guards, the conviction that the courts, the prisons-indeed the whole system of American justice-are a failure and they its victims...
...thing, the U.S. felt that it did not have sufficient leverage with India. Beyond that, the White House calculated that if it became deeply involved, there would be serious repercussions from Congress, especially in view of the nation's profound distrust of foreign entanglements in the wake of Viet...
...Despite all the current hullabaloo over J. Edgar Hoover [Oct. 25], it is evident that the bureau goes right along with its job, impressively directed. There's a growing cancer of distrust in society, from corn flakes to cars, Pentagon papers to pressed beef, police to press, all are being subject to self-styled revelators. Much of this merely gives aid and comfort to the enemy-crime...
...well founded is this distrust? Officials maintain that illegal price hikes have not been widespread, yet their own figures raise some doubt. Wholesale prices have dipped slightly the past two months, but in September, the first full month of the freeze, the consumer price index went up .2% nationally. In New York it climbed .5%, and in Philadelphia .9%. Paul W. McCracken, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, has started an investigation...