Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serving in any sort of civil-defense capacity while other American soldiers were fighting elsewhere was enough to bring bellows of rage from doughty Major General (ret.) Ellard A. Walsh, 66, longtime president of the National Guard Association. Walsh knew that behind Hannah's faint praise lay basic distrust of the peacetime Guard: Hannah is convinced that many Guard outfits are shot through with political officers, overaged officers, incompetents, and youths who joined up to avoid the draft. Challenged Walsh: "If they want war, let it begin here."* Then he really warmed up: "If the distinguished savant from Michigan...
...Fears & Hesitations. In France, the opponents of EDC and the damners-with-faint-praise are motivated by a weird variety of fears and hesitations. Some despise and distrust Germany, and that overrides everything else; some (including Premier Joseph Laniel, who has made a career these past seven months of political survival) think of EDC as a dose of unpleasant medicine, to be stalled off as long as possible; some think that French sovereignty and pride outweigh considerations of security; some want to toy with the alternatives, or get more concessions-notably, German concessions on the Saar and U.S.-British guarantees...
...another $8,400,000 in aid. It is a fact, however, that Tito's ranks are heavily populated with rugged, old-line Communists who, while not favoring a return to the boa-constrictor embrace of the Kremlin, resent any straying from the steely dialectics of true Communism, and distrust anything but opportunistic relations with the West...
...result, President Pusey acknowledged, there is a serious distrust of higher education. He asserted, however, that this distrust "springs less from a conviction that there are Communists currently teaching in the colleges than from an amorphous feeling that teachers over the past 20 years . . . have been too liberal, out of sympathy with . . . the great majority of the people...
Businessmen and educators have not always recognized this. While there are a few businessmen who still regard college professors as fuzzy-minded and likely to be radicals, and a few educators who still look on businessmen as mere moneygrubbers, the mutual distrust has generally disappeared in the mutual need. The rapidly expanding U.S. economy has made college graduates more important than ever to industry. In turn, universities must depend increasingly on corporations for contributions, since high taxes have all but cut off the flow of the big individual contributions that built the private schools...