Word: distruster
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...government service for more than a third of this violent century. As everything from ambassador to special consultant and Assistant Secretary of State, he watched how power was actually used in a variety of crises from the 1933 bank holiday to the Cuban missile showdown. Despite the old American distrust of all power, he believes that our current social ills are eliciting new assertions of power, and that its nature should therefore be better understood. His own attack on it is as systematic and undaunted as any book since Machiavelli's The Prince...
...both the have and have-not camps, says the Pearson report, the aid climate is "heavy with disillusion and distrust," partly because "instant development" has proved illusory, partly because economic improvement has not always been "an antidote to violence," partly because the wealthier countries are turning to problems of their...
...fire. The raw arrival is greeted with naked suspicion and hostility by a fighting force whose very life depends on group solidarity. Field commanders are now encouraged to prepare the new man for his chilly reception so that he will know what to expect. To abbreviate the period of distrust, the most seasoned veteran in the outfit is often made the new man's mentor and supervisor...
Like the beats, Baillie has a distrust of formalized structures, his movies growing gradually from images shot and edited in spurts, "discovering the film as it takes shape." Above all he is concerned with the apotheosis of the moment, the texture and line of things seen and felt, and the result is a body of work that is palpably bright...
...concerned blacks and whites, the city's school board agreed to appropriate $25,000 for the first system-wide school "sensitivity" training program in the nation. The purpose: to give whites and minority groups in the schools a better understanding of each other, in the hope of reducing distrust and antagonism...