Word: distruster
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Well aware of the dislike and distrust in which he was held by Victoria's subjects for most of his life, Albert himself was wisely self-effacing. "The position of Prince Consort requires that the husband should entirely sink his own individual existence in that of his wife," he wrote. But at a time when the Queen could still conduct diplomacy with other chiefs of state over the head of her government, he carried the key to Victoria's dispatch boxes, served as his wife's guide, mentor, confidant and private secretary, drafted her state orders...
American science has been hampered by at least three forces. The public and the government hold to the traditional American belief that scientific research should be devoted to consumer goods, save for emergencies like all-out war. The scientific community has also suffered from the general distrust of Americans for eggheads. The Russian attitude is markedly different...
...committee warned against "too rigorous" a prosecution against women who loitered in pubs, on the grounds that this would only drive more of them onto the streets. The London Times agreed that "it would be wrong to punish the prostitute for being a prostitute," and the Spectator recalled Nietzsche: "Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is strong...
...personal favor of Pius XII (both the Pope's secretaries are Jesuits, as is his personal confessor). In an age of ideological conflict, many intellectuals (including non-Catholics) have come to appreciate the discipline and diligence Jesuits have brought to the battle of ideas. Much of the distrust aroused in the past by the order that was instructed by its founder to be "all things to all men" has disappeared. There are few who would today second the sputtering judgment of John Adams: "If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth...
Will Icarus reach Vienna on his borrowed wings? Will the wax seal on his petition melt if he flies too near the sun? Will his soul-stirring document resolve distrust among the Big Four and shock them to their senses? The questions are indisputably important and the lad's pluck is commendable, but the old. happy, skylarking days back at Ferndale were a lot more...