Word: distruster
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...only talents were telling involved dirty stories and twisting pipe cleaners into animal-like figures, e.g., he made a little kangaroo and named it Billie-Bunk. When the novelty and profits of his career wore off, Matusow sulked. Moreover, anti-Communist investigators began-although not soon enough-to distrust him. The FBI now says that it dropped him in 1950-yet Matusow was permitted to testify at great length (some 700 pages in the record) in the Government's trial of Gurley Flynn...
...often of the considered opinion that an immediate desegregation of the races would bring tragic results. Even now, a Kian-like organization is again stirring in Mississippi, where the Klan has been mercifully buried for years. Elsewhere throughout the Deep South there are being awakened old hatreds and fearful distrust. These Southern who, in the South, work for racial understanding cannot be blamed for recalling the days or Klan terror when their Northern critics demand an immediate change. The same enlightened Southerners point with justifiable pride to the immense and recent progress made in Negro education and social improvement. They...
...There is at present," he said, "a sickness in our country-a sickness of rumor and anxiety, of suspicion and distrust ... In part this sickness is due to overemphasis on caution ... In part it is an anti-intellectualism, a strange and dangerous lack of faith in scholarly competence...
...Flesh and confront his wife with it. "No," she would cry, "it is not true! The boy was only a child." Then, for a while, her husband would believe, and the couple would find an evanescent moment of happiness-only to lose it again in a new surge of distrust...
...Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The Prairie-shorn away the interminable love passages and faded humor, deftly stitched the rest together to fit into one handsome volume. Modern readers may smile at some of Cooper's dialogue, written in the days before Mark Twain cleared the air ("Manifest no distrust," says their escort to two beautiful girls wandering through Indian-infested forests, "or you may invite the danger you appear to apprehend"). Cooper still stands out as master of action-Indian wars, deer hunts, sleigh rides, combat with wild beasts, the spring run of bass-action in which the great...