Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must share responsibility--along with the McCarthys and the Jenners--for further encroachments of academic freedom. The hostility and antagonism aroused by "I refuse to answer because it might incriminate me" leads to more persecution, not to more respect for the teaching profession. Refusal to testify creates suspicion and distrust, both in the minds of the investigating Congressmen and in the minds of the general public. Regardless of how justified these investigations may be, the teacher who irritates the Velde committee by his silence at the same time encourages them to make more accusations and to conduct further investigations...
Most Frenchmen have a natural distrust of living anywhere except in France, but the poster swayed the schoolteacher and his wife. It showed a colonial couple, elegant in tropic white, taking their ease in a banana grove, while eager natives bustled at tasks around them. "Young people," assured the poster legend, "a fortune awaits you in the Colonies!" Ma and her husband applied for teaching posts in Indo-China and, one day in 1899, sailed to take them...
Sovereign Trust. In pursuing this policy, Rhee may well be moved by real distrust of Korea's manipulating politicians. But there is something more to his actions than counter-manipulation: his passionate belief that he governs by sovereign right conferred on him by the Korean people. This belief he clearly demonstrated in his row with the National Assembly last year. According to Korea's five-year-old constitution, the Assembly elects the President. Rhee's term being about to expire, the Assembly wished to exercise its constitutional right. Since the majority were opposed to Rhee, this meant...
Behind the amendment is a spirit of hedging, not against present danger, but presumed future danger. It reveals a distrust of presidential motives and assumes an executive penchant for subverting national liberty...
...into canals to irrigate 80,000 acres of their land. Yet many black farmers cannot understand the need for the project. Used to primitive subsistence-level farming, they fear any experiment as a possible short cut to starvation; accustomed to being victimized by landowners and loan sharks, they deeply distrust any help offered with seemingly altruistic motives. Their attitude has always been: "If a farm agent knows some better way of farming, why isn't he busy making money at it instead of telling us about...