Word: distruster
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...Until around 1900, golf was inhibited by Man's fundamental distrust of flight. Golfers believed that the walking game must also be terrestrial, and the best shots were hit low to the ground. This was particularly true in wind-battered Carnoustie, where nothing in the air is safe. In this part of Scotland, where golf has been played since the 1500s, even breeze-hardened seagulls are swept across fairways like errantly sliced golf balls. But the course, with par fours frequently stretching in excess of 450 yds. (411 m), proved too long for the standard earthbound strategy. That...
...have learned to sense when terrorism is being exploited for personal gain. And each time it happens, the public loses a little bit of faith. We might even begin to think that the threat is not very serious after all. That too would be a mistake. That kind of distrust and complacency would indeed be something to fear...
...Faculty had gotten pretty angry at Larry Summers. There was real tension, real distrust, dislike,” Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who is retiring this year after more than 50 years at Harvard, said. “Derek had to overcome that. In part he did it by being the father figure...
...Even more ominously, “Brother Barack” was catering to the “fears and anxieties” of a “large number of white brothers,” and listening to “folk who…warrant our distrust.” Which folks he didn’t say. What fears and what anxieties...
...extremism and aversion to the West is so entrenched in the culture you are trying to alter? -Mohammad Shamsuzzaman in San Bernardino, Calif. I don't necessarily agree with your assumption. Extremism is not endemic in my region, nor is anti-Western sentiment. No doubt there is discontent and distrust. That is towards more the American and some Western policies, and not toward the American people. Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life...