Word: distruster
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...truth seems to be, reported London Daily Telegraph Special Correspondent Denis Warner last week from Kabul, that most Afghans, official as well as unofficial, dislike and distrust foreigners, regardless of nationality. When the Afghan King left his Russian jet and was whisked to his palace on a five-lane Russian-built superhighway, it quite possibly marked the first time in several weeks that the highway had been used by anything more than a donkey cart. Russia has also supplied some $40 million in military aid "several" T-34 tanks, fairly modern artillery pieces, 32 MIG-17 fighter planes...
Admitted Deputy Defense Minister Janusz Zarzycki, writing for his fellow officers in the military magazine Zolnierz Wolnosci (Soldier of Freedom): "The atmosphere actually prevailing in the army is worrying us greatly." He noted "loss of confidence in the party . . . symptoms of distrust towards the command . . . lack of faith in socialism and in its superiority over the capitalist system. There is a tendency to condemn all the work done in the past twelve years; we are also inclined not to notice all the "evil and all that is inhuman in the capitalist structure, or the aggressiveness of the imperialist policy which...
...decided not to go. As a man of the cloth, Simaan Dweihi was also present. As the various churchmen and family elders made their way toward the little parish church of Our Lady of Miziyara, their henchmen gathered in a nearby café, eying each other with the distrust common to the district...
This movie might better have been titled "The Treasure of Sierra Mombasa" or "King Solomon's Mimes." With snarling distrust and open greed. Hero Wilde keeps a bloodshot eye on his brother's two partners, now his. because they are just as mean and avaricious as he is. In fact, Wilde distrusts the whole safari-even the coy lady anthropologist (Donna Reed) and her missionary uncle (Leo Genn), and certainly the natives, as shifty-eyed a pack as ever whetted spears. The snail's pace direction makes it seem they will never find that blasted mine...
...acres of farmland, get their wages-if any-in the wheat and sugar-beet yield of the land itself. With holdings averaging 20 acres or less apiece, the farmers are themselves poor, bitter, hard pressed. For years the richest harvest reaped in the Valley has been one of violence, distrust and hatred...