Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON began berating the administration for its attitude and warned that if it wanted Baker to remain it would have to do something quickly. "Just why this silent opposition persists is difficult to understand," a CRIMSON editorial said in the fall of 1928. "It may be a native distrust of the strange and the new or it may be an unconscious relic of the conventional point of view toward anything and everything in the slightest way connected with the stage. Both very nearly approach the ridiculous. When the drama has reached a point in its development where its legitimacy...
...major address before the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Pusey decried the present distrust of education, claiming that the leadership of 10,000 Harvard men is lost amidst "some dozens who probably flirted with or were actually involved with Communism at some time during their careers...
...peste" were erected by Communists as Brinton contends, the more reassuring "Stalines a Moscou" may equally well spring from activity of a few Gaullists. Though moderate governments have at least a precarious hold in all of Western Europe except in Spain and Portugal, Brinton admits that most intellectuals distrust Americans. Yet Brinton's solace that there are "promising beginnings" in the average European's attitude toward America is based on subjective evidence, curiously flimsy for an historian to present...
During an age when distrust and hatred hang over mention of the word Russia, when investigation into Communist activities have descended on American government, education and churches, when the nickname of the Cincinnati baseball team is changed, a group of scholarly men, working out of dark offices on Dunster Street are heading the study of modern Russia...
...markets all over the globe, he has found he can ship British tractors through the Panama Canal cheaply enough to compete with Midwest tractor makers for California sales. Says he: "We wouldn't try to sell in the Midwest, because those farmers are like our Yorkshiremen-inclined to distrust a product they don't know. Californians are willing to try something...