Word: distruster
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There is nothing like an honest-to-God reactionary in politics to revive one's basic distrust of the voter. At the same time, the popularity of a political escapist acts to reassure one of the stubborn individualism which supposedly built the nation...
...Freedom is the condition necessary to the progress of society," Eliot told Reed's assembled class. "A striking phenomenon of our day is the distrust of freedom that is manifesting itself in all walks of life...
Others in his government, notably Chief of the General Staff "Tiger" Wang and Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, counseled patience and restraint. The U.S. launched the Warsaw talks, and Chiang, who privately viewed the talks with undisguised distrust, agreed to wait until they had proved a success or had conclusively failed...
...wants to be liked, then. Candidate Pat Brown has awesome political responsibilities. In this as in countless other ways, he is an unlikely sort to carry such a burden. California Democrats look to Brown to lead them to their greatest victory in history, yet many of those same Democrats distrust him as an ex-Republican who still rides the coattails of Republican heroes. "I want to make it very clear," said Brown last week, "that I intend to guide our state government in the great tradition of Earl Warren and Hiram Johnson...
Fighting dirt, dysentery and distrust, the salesmen are specialists in a unique investment operation known as Deltec S.A. Founded by a hard-driving Princetonian ('35), Clarence J. Dauphinot Jr., 44, Deltec has pioneered in raising investment capital in Brazil to develop new industries for the country and set a pattern that others are copying. Dauphinot, a onetime Wall Street foreign-bond trader, got interested in the project during trips to South America for Kidder, Peabody & Co. during World War II. He found that while Brazilian industry was starving for capital, money was stagnating in savings accounts and sewn...