Word: distruster
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Sketches from Life. In Germany, the country where Sybille Bedford was born and which she later came to fear and distrust, she found the highest degree of thoughtfulness and understanding. Whatever the tribunal or whatever the case, it seemed almost as if the entire court system was trying to prove that justice had returned to Germany. In a murder case both judge and prosecution show an impressive sense of fairness. In a divorce case, an alimony hearing, the case of a Czech refugee who had stolen food to stay alive, the human decency displayed by all hands...
...There is always a certain number of phone calls that come in whenever one of these projects is launched. There is just enough of an element of distrust of roving scholars that we must use a certain care and keep the inquiry in terms the community can understand," he declared...
...embarked the exile army, obviously were under instructions to keep their lips zippered tight. But from the exile command, which sat helplessly by while 1,300 of its countrymen were ground up by Castro's military machine, came a tragic account of miscalculation, compounded by political bickering, distrust and gross ineptitude...
President Pusey indicated last week that he would look with disfavor on a loyalty oath provision. Monro charged that the oath "smacks of distrust, won't do any good, and cheapens the whole virtue of oaths," and said it represented an invasion of privacy, but he suggested that only an attempt to require an affidavit of disbelief should be strenuously opposed...
...entering Freshman is ready to assume the name and concentration requirements of a Sophomore. Graded on a scale of one-through-five, they force the College to pick 100 Sophomores a year on the hopelessly inadequate basis of little numbers, the kind of criteria Harvard usually prefers to distrust...