Word: distruster
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...around the U.S., other excited announcers offered similar "bargains"-which almost always turned out to be fakes. To admen and reputable retailers, this popular form of electronic huckstering is known as "bait advertising." Says Denver's Better Business Bureau Director Dan Bell: "The greatest single cause of consumer distrust of advertising today is the widespread use of bait tactics . . . It has been termed a national scandal in business...
...legislatures can equal the men of the French Assembly for wit, eloquence and intelligence. Many of its leaders are honored veterans of the French Resistance. Why are these courageous men unable, despite themselves, to give France a stable government? The answer is simple, but not helpful: France is deeply distrustful of a strong government. Too frequently and too recently, Frenchmen have had to man the barricades against oppression. Since 1789 France has lived under four republics, two emperors, one consulate, one directorate and three monarchies. In the France of the peasant and the petit bourgeois, where the bell jangles...
Western diplomats are candid in their distrust of Herbert Wehner, and of the interests he serves. They see him as an evil grey eminence in the SPD. But as the shrill Socialist campaign against the Paris accords spread across Germany last week, there could be little doubt that the counsels of Herbert Wehner are in the ascendant in the party hierarchy...
...military's opposition to Kubitschek stemmed mainly from distrust of the late President Getulio Vargas, who committed suicide last August after the generals had warned him to resign in order to resolve a growing administrative scandal. The generals are determined that the next President of Brazil shall be, like Café Filho, a man unstained by the Vargas regime's mar de lama (sea of mud). As the military sees it, Kubitschek is linked to the old Vargas camp...
...that Britain is a 'Christian country' is at best a half-truth . . . There is a mass of what [have been called] 'four-wheeler Christians, people who arrive in the church only in pram, car or hearse, for their christening, marriage and burial.' There is much distrust ... of what are said to be the reactionary and hypocritical views of professed Christians. There is great ignorance ... A recent inquiry among secondary-school children in Leeds showed that to many of them . . . 'words such as baptize, resurrection, ascension, testament, gospel, epistle . . . were often simply unknown...