Word: distruster
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...lesson was administered principally by a member of Adenauer's own Christian Democratic Party, Richard Jaeger, 42, chairman of the Bundestag's Security Committee. Jaeger, whose distrust of generals is exceeded only by his scorn for Prussians, is by heritage and career a Bavarian (which, as regional patriotism goes among Germans, is something like being a Texan). Jaeger regards it as his everlasting misfortune that, when he was born, his parents happened to be in Berlin, deep in the heart of Prussia. "The course Germany took under Prussia's leadership," he warned the Bundestag recently, his eyes...
...founder of the C.I.O., is one of the few labor leaders who have publicly expressed themselves on the subject of Walter Reuther. He referred to him as a "pseudo-intellectual nitwit." Labor leaders generally dislike his metallic personal qualities-the iron will, the tinny personality, the brass nerve. They distrust his power and his policies...
...variety in their background, income, jobs, accent and future, there is a common feeling threading through the different levels of French youth. It is some mixture of disorientation, disgust, disinterest, disappointment and dis enchantment, all resulting in me fiance - a distrust for the powers that be. There is, lying deep down below the soil, a seed of revolt. It may never burst into violent revolution...
...Overwhelming Task. There are vital differences between Davenport and others who have had similar insights. Dissatisfaction with military and economic weapons does not lead him to conclude that such weapons should be abandoned: "Without them the entire free world would be exposed." Distrust of the faith in progress does not lead him to assert that it should be discarded, for it has "become vital to the health-indeed to the survival-of modern civilization . . . In terms of human destiny we are committed to the optimistic tradition." It is America's special task-"of truly overwhelming proportions"-to find...
Because of its limited duties, OTC is no panacea for trade problems, but it should be approved, if only to secure the faith of our thirty-three allies. If Congress does not pass the plan, ensuing distrust might lead to new and higher tariff barriers and ultimately halt the expansion of world trade. By enacting OTC and its sister proposal, the Reciprocal Trade Act, Congress could relieve the hardening of Western arteries of trade...