Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin. Whatever the details, the Communists made no secret of their main ambition at Berlin: to defeat the West's plan for a European Army. The method would be to rouse France's ancient fears of German arms. Said John Foster Dulles this week in Manhattan: "Distrust between France and Germany is inflammable, and already Soviet agents are looking to it as a means for international arson...
This somber announcement was greeted with what Pravda called "spontaneous demonstrations of the Russian workers and peasants." In Tiflis, capital of Beria's home state, "the entire Georgian people" was said to be condemning the traitor for "sowing poisonous seeds of distrust of our great brother Russian people...
...Distrust of Trials...
...Increase Mather's conscience worked slowly, it at least worked surely. All through the summer, with the witchcraft mania reaching new heights, his doubts began to grow. The earliest sign of his increasing distrust of the trial procedures came in the middle of June when, with several other ministers, he responded to a request for advice from the judges. The group of ministers suggested that the courts evaluate carefully the so-called "spectral evidence"--that given by the afflicted girls of Salem; no one was quite ready yet to dispute directly the testimony of the girls, but their conduct...
These seeds of fear and distrust fell on fertile soil. For Massachusetts was just emerging from a period of extreme anxiety. Only a few years before, in the last years of England's ill-fated James II, the colony had lost its precious charter and had felt the weight of royal autocracy under the governorship of Sir Edmund Andros. Even as the witch craze began, Massachusetts representatives were at the court of the new King, seeking a new charter. And the memory of King Phillip's War, with its horrors of Indian savagery, was still fresh in many New England...