Word: distruster
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...their own cultural tradition, a stern code of honor and a justified hatred of the white invaders. Their tribal chief, Cochise (well played by Jeff Chandler), is an able strategist and a wise statesman. The story works up such sympathy and respect for him and his tribe, and such distrust of their ignorant, arrogant enemies, that most moviegoers will be delighted whenever another paleface bites the dust...
Physicist Seitz knows that some of his colleagues hate to develop new means of mass slaughter. They distrust military men, cringe at the thought of exposing themselves to spy hunts. But Dr. Seitz is convinced that they must. Otherwise, they will endanger "the most important ideals which have been evolved by mankind since the dawn of civilization . . . Who among us will feel sinless if he has remained passively by while Western culture was being overwhelmed...
...edifice marked a large advance for the Music Department, which had been a sort of gypsy in the University, camping at one time in the chem labs and later on in the Bursar's office. Harvard had not been the world's most congenial patron for the art. Puritan distrust of music as a rootlet of evil lingered on throughout the 19th century: Francis Parkman was said to have ended his yearly budget report at the Corporation with "Musica Delenda Est." By 1914, however, most of this sinfulness seemed to have worn off, and music was looked on, at worst...
...Mullins has done a grave disservice by wrenching two separate sentences from my article, quoting them out of context, and thus creating a wholly false impression. His column served to fan the flames of hatred and distrust. This I deplore, for I am utterly opposed to racial and religious prejudice...
...country's administration is flabby and corrupt; despite ECAid, its economy is semi-paralyzed by public distrust. Recently, when a Greek businessman sought ECA backing for a gold-mining project in Macedonia, an ECA official snapped: "The best place to dig for gold in Greece is in people's mattresses." The imprint of war still remains heavy on the land-and even on the language. A Greek washerwoman, bent over her heaped sink, will say: "Polemo tin bougada" (I am making war on the laundry). A truck driver sprawling underneath his truck will say: "Polemo tin mechani...