Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mullins has done a grave disservice by wrenching two separate sentences from my article, quoting them out of context, and thus creating a wholly false impression. His column served to fan the flames of hatred and distrust. This I deplore, for I am utterly opposed to racial and religious prejudice...
...country's administration is flabby and corrupt; despite ECAid, its economy is semi-paralyzed by public distrust. Recently, when a Greek businessman sought ECA backing for a gold-mining project in Macedonia, an ECA official snapped: "The best place to dig for gold in Greece is in people's mattresses." The imprint of war still remains heavy on the land-and even on the language. A Greek washerwoman, bent over her heaped sink, will say: "Polemo tin bougada" (I am making war on the laundry). A truck driver sprawling underneath his truck will say: "Polemo tin mechani...
...United States of Indonesia. The second was the U.S.'s bulky, soft-spoken H. Merle Cochran. For 18 months, Cochran had been the moving force on the United Nations Commission for Indonesia, had skillfully steered the Dutch and Indonesian negotiators through a tangled jungle of mutual distrust and suspicion. Said Cochran: "I have the utmost confidence...
...attempt to revive the white man's supremacy in the Far East. Advocates of a military "wall against Communism" in the Pacific area, like the one in Western Europe, fail to realize that Far Easterners, unlike Europeans, do not look to the U.S. for leadership and support, but distrust it. Confidence in the U.S. is increasing in the Far East and its development should continue...
...general distrust of the present tendency toward increasing interference by government...