Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hard Decisions. The current surge of anti-Dulles feeling comes principally because many of the free world's politicians and pundits are trying to sidestep the hard decisions of defense by agitating for a new parley at the summit with the Kremlin. Dulles is known for his unchanging distrust of Communist promises. "Dulles," said England's liberal Manchester Guardian, "is creating for himself something of the reputation of a professional anti-Soviet, someone to whom every action by the Soviet government appears suspect or worse by reason of its origin rather than by its nature. That...
...perpetuate the Indian's own isolation in a fast-progressing, ever-changing country. Sympathetic bureau men are aware that their charges, now 500,000 strong (an increase of 250,000 since 1900), are held back by a desire to preserve their tribal identity and traditions and their confused distrust-sometimes justified-of the outside world...
Well aware of the dislike and distrust in which he was held by Victoria's subjects for most of his life, Albert himself was wisely self-effacing. "The position of Prince Consort requires that the husband should entirely sink his own individual existence in that of his wife," he wrote. But at a time when the Queen could still conduct diplomacy with other chiefs of state over the head of her government, he carried the key to Victoria's dispatch boxes, served as his wife's guide, mentor, confidant and private secretary, drafted her state orders...
American science has been hampered by at least three forces. The public and the government hold to the traditional American belief that scientific research should be devoted to consumer goods, save for emergencies like all-out war. The scientific community has also suffered from the general distrust of Americans for eggheads. The Russian attitude is markedly different...
...personal favor of Pius XII (both the Pope's secretaries are Jesuits, as is his personal confessor). In an age of ideological conflict, many intellectuals (including non-Catholics) have come to appreciate the discipline and diligence Jesuits have brought to the battle of ideas. Much of the distrust aroused in the past by the order that was instructed by its founder to be "all things to all men" has disappeared. There are few who would today second the sputtering judgment of John Adams: "If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth...