Word: distruster
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...Stalin was a very distrustful man, sickly suspicious; we knew this from our work with him. He could look at a man and say: 'Why are your eyes so shifty today?' Or, 'why are you turning so much today and avoiding looking at me directly in the eyes?' The sickly suspicion created in him a general distrust even toward eminent party workers whom he had known for years. Everywhere and in everything he saw 'enemies,' 'two-facers' and 'spies...
...Richardson's brightest memories are of the more unusual aspects of banking. When he arrived late in 1929, for example, there were already frightening signs of depression in the U.S. and in Mexico revolutionary troubles had filled the streets with bandoleered bullyboys and the people with a deep distrust of paper currency. As a result, there was a run on the bank almost as soon as it opened. The new manager ordered the guards to open the vaults and fill large sacks with silver coins. Then he slipped them out the back door with instructions to march...
...Hart Benton of Missouri, whose daughter Jessie he married. For the illegitimate son of a woman who had run away from her husband in favor of an itinerant French schoolteacher, Frémont came a long way. As a general in the Civil War, he incurred Lincoln's distrust, and for many that was enough to put him permanently under a cloud. But when the complex man whom Historian Nevins struggled with in Frémont: Pathmarker of the West has ceased to tease biographers, there will still remain the practical visionary of the Narratives, fully happy for perhaps...
Martin traces his own distrust for an adviser with too much advice to the growth of guidance counseling in secondary schools. "There is no reason that an 18-year old should not be able to make his own decisions, but his secondary school background may have had such a vast counseling machinery for easing his way that he has failed to assume his proper responsibilities." Because Martin feels that the contrived intimacy of the guidance counselor is largely an illusion, he feels the advising system, at least in theory, should be kept to the primary, limited purpose of helping...
Almost every action the group has taken has been designed to increase legislative control over U.S. foreign aid. The Congress must realize that projects such as dams and roads need a steady flow of funds rather than an unsure, year-to-year allotment. Although the House committee's apparent distrust of the Administration's foreign savoir faire may be well-founded, it is nonetheless harmful to the conduct of international relations and to U.S. prestige...