Word: distruster
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...June 1965, Lowell declined President Johnson's invitation to a White House arts festival. Lowell wrote, in a letter to the President, that he viewed Johnson's actions with "dismay and distrust." He claimed that he could not accept the invitation in good conscience. "Every serious writer," he said, "knows that he cannot enjoy such public celebration with-out making subtle public commitments...
Both have made clear their distrust of his assurances that he is not soft on the Viet Cong; both suspect that he would cooperate with the Communists in the mistaken belief that he could later over power them...
...ignored Mississippi's numerous white poor in its projects; Greenville residents charge that one tangible result of the "reconciliation" has been a revival of Ku Klux Klan activity in areas where it had long been dormant. Yet they concede to the Ministry one ironic and important accomplishment: mutual distrust of its operations has for the first time driven Negro and white moderates toward the beginnings of true dialogue and cooperation...
...completely dead. At the end of January a majority of students at the Divinity school signed a petition which was sent to Congress opposing any form of conscription on the grounds that it was un-Christian, contrary to American ideals, and self-defeating since it bred international misunderstanding and distrust. As war became more imminent, such protests became more unusual, and an increasing number of students at the University entered some form of voluntary military training...
...that "you can get anybody to tell you almost anything if you make him think he's smarter than you are." As someone who has worked closely with him put it, "a key thing about his personality is that he's always remained a Midwesterner with a Midwesterner's distrust of Easterners...