Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolutionary politics of the Indian National Congress Party. And once he met Gandhi, the die was cast. Two men more diverse than Nehru and the frail little Mahatma could hardly be imagined. Devoted to the scientific socialism of the tractor and the big machine, Nehru could scarcely comprehend the distrust of machine civilization which Gandhi symbolized with his home spinning wheel, and he was outraged when Gandhi proclaimed a disastrous earthquake to be divine punishment for India's moral imperfections...
...Stalin was a very distrustful man, sickly suspicious; we knew this from our work with him. He could look at a man and say: 'Why are your eyes so shifty today?' Or, 'why are you turning so much today and avoiding looking at me directly in the eyes?' The sickly suspicion created in him a general distrust even toward eminent party workers whom he had known for years. Everywhere and in everything he saw 'enemies,' 'two-facers' and 'spies...
...World War II, U.S. intellectuals have, as never before, been debating these questions. But in the course of the debate, one note has been struck time and time again, and no one has sounded it more clearly than Historian Jacques Barzun of Columbia University. If there is a traditional distrust of ideas in the U.S., says Barzun, the nation's men of ideas have still "won recognition in tangible ways beyond any previous group of their peers." And more important, many have come at last to realize that they are true and proud participants in the American Dream...
...Richardson's brightest memories are of the more unusual aspects of banking. When he arrived late in 1929, for example, there were already frightening signs of depression in the U.S. and in Mexico revolutionary troubles had filled the streets with bandoleered bullyboys and the people with a deep distrust of paper currency. As a result, there was a run on the bank almost as soon as it opened. The new manager ordered the guards to open the vaults and fill large sacks with silver coins. Then he slipped them out the back door with instructions to march...
...Hart Benton of Missouri, whose daughter Jessie he married. For the illegitimate son of a woman who had run away from her husband in favor of an itinerant French schoolteacher, Frémont came a long way. As a general in the Civil War, he incurred Lincoln's distrust, and for many that was enough to put him permanently under a cloud. But when the complex man whom Historian Nevins struggled with in Frémont: Pathmarker of the West has ceased to tease biographers, there will still remain the practical visionary of the Narratives, fully happy for perhaps...