Word: distruster
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...should Munro want to return? Not for the benefit of the players; for a team with Munro and the present juniors will be overflowing with tensions and distrust. Not for his own pleasure, for there won't be much pleasure in coaching a team that the returning lettermen decide to boycott. There are only two reason why Munro might return: to avoid a bad precedent whereby players could have a coach fired, or to maintain Munro's pride. The idea of a precedent being more important than the human beings involved in this case is a repulsive thought...
Several months earlier, the 7th Circuit Court had ruled that requiring New York Times reporter Earl Caldwell to appear before a Grand Jury that was making a general investigation of the Panthers would drive "a wedge of distrust between the media and the militants." Thus, it would have a "chilling effect" on the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press. The judges in that case held that only compelling national interest could be held to justify an invasion of the First Amendment rights of free speech, association, and press. But they held that their ruling was a narrow...
...quickly learns, cry out for the consensus of a homogeneous congregation that will respond to the preacher's demands. "Well, here we are again," Michael Walzer began. But it didn't work. His "we" was too highly suspect, for the only common denominator in the hall was a common distrust. One turned to his neighbor and, instead of a reassuring glance, found him virtually unrecognizable. How could those in front of you applaud McCarthy? Why did those in back not hiss down Riegle? Walzer himself, however expertly, played the game, balancing the boos and hisses off against the applause...
Clearly the American people distrust their leaders and want the war ended. The movement must prod them into action...
...spent at least part of their lives under non-Communist governments. "They use their elbows," said the head of one of Israel's 25 immigrant centers, referring to the East Europeans. Not the Soviet Jews. Most are so accustomed to life under totalitarianism that they speak in whispers, distrust all government functionaries and shy away from decisions. One Leningrad doctor, hired by a health insurance company, was aghast when his new boss told him to pick a vacation date. In Jerusalem, a newly arrived photographer from Moscow hesitated when TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin bought him Coca-Cola...