Word: distruster
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...presidential mansion, "to fix the taste of our country properly...everything about you should be substantially good and majestically plain, made to endure." Modern Americans are taught to love luxury, to think of it as a reward for success. Those of the late 18th century were more apt to distrust it as a vice. They associated it with frivolity, decadence--colonial rule. Virtue showed itself in plainness, explicitness, pragmatism, "making do," an unfussed directness of craftsmanship. There was, as the phrase went, an "American grain...
...system, the French tend to produce civil servants and middle managers, but entrepreneurial brains who would enliven the business climate are few. The success of Arnault, who spent three years working on real estate deals in Florida during the Socialist reign of Francois Mitterrand, has stirred up resentment and distrust among his peers...
...action traces the descent into madness and furtive attempts at self defense of the title character, a soldier with an unfaithful wife and illegitimate child. Woyzeck is beaten up, experimented on and tortured until he snaps back, turning on the one thing he loves, his wife. His progression of distrust and anger leads him not only to doubt, but also to succumb slowly and miserably under a tide of filth and oppression...
...union representatives resume negotiations seeking a new contract before a deadline of midnight EST Friday. The union, the Allied Pilots Association, has established a strike "war room" in Miami, while the airline has alerted its 90,000 employees that a layoff may be coming. "There's a lot of distrust on both sides," says TIME Austin bureau chief Sam Gwynne. "The central truth at this point is that the two sides can't even agree on the major issue. The management says this strike is about money; the pilots say it's about the emergence of regional jets." This contract...
...contempt after refusing to answer Starr's questions before a grand jury. Having been granted immunity for anything other than perjury, Susan can no longer invoke the Fifth Amendment privilege. In various interviews since her conviction, including an appearance on ABC's 20/20, Susan has cited her fear and distrust of Starr and his prosecutors as her reason for silence. That distrust seems genuine, but it is hardly the full explanation...