Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here he was now, relaxing in his slide-back seat, murmuring about how long the blade on that stick was going to be, how curved, how illegal. I felt a sudden, but distinct, distrust of Joe Cavanagh. Power corrupts and all that...
...with families and without them. Hence we distrust one another. The women with a home and children is suspicious of the women with no ties, seeing her as a potential threat to her security. The single women feels the married woman is subtly critical of her because she is not fulfilling her role as wife and mother; she feels accused of being unfeminine...
Though each African country has its own unique problems, all share the common difficulty of tribalism. Education and industrialization are gradually creating a more sophisticated urban class. Nevertheless, most Black Africans retain such intense allegiance to their tribes that they actively distrust most outsiders. That attitude breeds tribal nepotism within governments, fosters rivalries and often leads to bloodshed...
...Europe during World War II. According to Hochhuth's thesis, the Vatican and Berlin were thus, by extension, tacit wartime allies. Writing in the current issue of the scholarly Vatican review La Civiltá Cattolica, U.S. Jesuit Robert A. Graham disputes this view. Not only did the Nazis distrust the Vatican, says Graham, but they also flooded Rome with bogus priests and lay spies in an effort to discover whether it was plotting against them...
Pusey says the costs of the "tactics of violence" must be measured in "hours wasted and opportunities missed. in the increase in internal political activity at the expense of learning and scholarship. in the erosion of confidence and trust and respect in the promotion of distrust and hostility. the injury done friendship, and the defeat of reason and love...