Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still the overwhelming economic power that it was immediately after World War II. For many years foreigners believed U.S. assurances that the balance of payments deficit would be brought under control. They no longer do, and their doubts about the responsibility of U.S. economic behavior have turned into a distrust of the value of the dollar...
...speakers' platform. In San Francisco as in Washington, the mood of the marchers was discernibly different from the heady optimism of the 1969 Moratorium. Both demonstrations were happily free of violence. But under the spring-picnic good cheer last week was a layer of despair, and a distrust of all the considerable evidence that the Administration is winding down the war. In 1969, said David Ifshin, president of the National Student Association, "we came with the sense that the war might end tomorrow." He added: "That feeling isn't here today. We know it's going...
...PEACE: Of those questioned, 68% foresee peaceful relations, although only one in five believes that this can happen within five years. A total of 56% feel that the chances for peace are better now than they were a year ago. One obstacle from the Israeli point of view is distrust: 56% of those questioned feel that Egypt's Sadat was not sincere when he offered to recognize Israel's sovereignty; 30% are willing to take him at his word and 14% are not sure...
...white curator) and all demands from artists for a white guest curator to give advice in this delicate area are rebuffed. So the museum's man spends a nervous year among the studios of East Hampton, Venice West and SoHo in an atmosphere of mounting agitation and distrust. By the eve of the show, a number of his chosen artists have angrily pulled out, and they include many of the best white talents. The exhibition is crippled. "That's honkies for you," sighs the perplexed director to the battered curator. "Give the mothers a wall...
...British welfare-state benefits available in Northern Ireland for life in the poorer Republic of Ireland. "Why don't I go down South?" asked a Belfast longshoreman. "That's just what the Prods want us to do. Well, it's our country too." But with distrust turning more and more into open hostility and with minor street incidents turning into major riots, the prospect of civil war is becoming ever more likely...