Word: distruster
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Frenchman and German may still distrust each other profoundly, but neither lets that stand in the way of business. Last year West Germany was France's best customer, buying $490 million worth of French goods. And France bought more from Germany ($432 million worth) than from any other country except the U.S. ($460 million...
...wreaths for colleagues' funerals, or turned up at the wedding of Chancellor Adenauer's daughter with a bouquet of exactly six carnations costing 14? apiece. Wish there were more like him in other countries, they said. But others, negotiating with him on occupation matters, acquired a distrust for his evasive tactics and figure juggling. His power grew. When Adenauer fell ill 'last fall, he was even mentioned as a likely successor...
...inadvertently, Author Ives gives a clue to her brother's political personality. Despite the devotion he inspires in those near him, the book once more conveys his unhappy faculty of creating distrust in the common man he seeks to champion. The cause is, perhaps, less his often-criticized highbrow manner than a certain remoteness springing from that remarkably sheltered and unruffled life. It was a life that appears today somehow divorced from a reality larger than family, Illinois or Princeton...
...unionist, Steelman Ernest Weir (in the St. Louis Post Dispatch): "Western nations should proceed on the premise that Russia now wants peace and more stable international relations," Meany snorted. "In my opinion," he said, "Mr. Weir would be serving America better if he renounced his attitude of suspicion and distrust of collective bargaining in our own country before he showered his trust on Khrushchev and his comrades behind the Iron Curtain." Somewhat to Meany's surprise-and probably to theirs too-applause broke from the 500 Rotarians...
...anything too insistent on disagreeing with his neighbors. And in this he was helped by that old political nostrum, proportional representation, which encourages as many parties as there are disagreements. Proportional representation, and the resulting multiplicity of parties, registered accurately Frenchmen's differences and their deep distrust of one another. But it failed in the primary object of the democratic process-discovering areas of agreement...