Word: distruster
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...best, the offer was designed to sow tension and distrust among Red flyers, keep flight leaders so busy worrying about out-of-sight pilots that they would not be able to tend to their business. There was even the possibility that, to prevent defection, the Reds might ration fuel, thus limiting the time the MIGs can stay in the air to patrol and fight...
Clouded in suspicion and distrust of their loyalty, all twenty-three will certainly suffer from the Pentagon's half-secret, ambiguous statements. Their names have been released, yet no satisfactory explanation has been offered for the continued observation. The longer the Army keeps these men confined, the larger public suspicion will grow...
After reading your article ... I have these comments to make: there is a rising tide of Puritanism in America. The last election proves it; McCarthyism proves it; the constant battering of liberals proves it; the general distrust of intellectuals proves it; and the favorable reception to your article proves it. And what is this neo-Puritanism? It is an authoritarian morality that is completely intolerant of opposition; a prudishness in support of that morality; a passive and negative philosophy of life, purporting to leave all to a God that is no less prudish (the doctrine of original sin), no less...
...must share responsibility--along with the McCarthys and the Jenners--for further encroachments of academic freedom. The hostility and antagonism aroused by "I refuse to answer because it might incriminate me" leads to more persecution, not to more respect for the teaching profession. Refusal to testify creates suspicion and distrust, both in the minds of the investigating Congressmen and in the minds of the general public. Regardless of how justified these investigations may be, the teacher who irritates the Velde committee by his silence at the same time encourages them to make more accusations and to conduct further investigations...
Most Frenchmen have a natural distrust of living anywhere except in France, but the poster swayed the schoolteacher and his wife. It showed a colonial couple, elegant in tropic white, taking their ease in a banana grove, while eager natives bustled at tasks around them. "Young people," assured the poster legend, "a fortune awaits you in the Colonies!" Ma and her husband applied for teaching posts in Indo-China and, one day in 1899, sailed to take them...