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Word: distrusters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the temptation to profit from the mutual Sino-Soviet distrust, the U.S. was scrupulously avoiding even the suggestion that it might be fishing in troubled waters. As it was, the Chinese and Russians seemed to be roiling the waters quite enough on their own. The on-and-off propaganda war between Moscow and Peking was on again, in full force. Peking condemned the "Soviet revisionist renegade clique." In the Soviet Union's angriest attack on China since the border talks began, Tass accused the Chinese of "fanning chauvinist sentiments and military psychosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tinkering with Delicate Relationships | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

PUTNEY SWOPE. Recommended for acid heads and those with good peripheral vision, this movie shares with If. . . a distrust of all systems of social order. Robert Downey, an underground ( Chafed Elbows ) filmmaker, wrote and directed Swope, which explains what happens when a group of militant blacks take over a Madison Avenue ad agency...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Moviegoer Ten Best Films of 1969 | 1/9/1970 | See Source »

...worries that the Administration is molding the Middle Americans into a respectable new right based on the militant Goldwater morality. "The Administration is working the hidden veins of fear, racism and resentment which lie deep in Middle America." says the committee in its annual report. "Respect for the past, distrust of the future, the politics of 'againstness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man and Woman of the Year: The Middle Americans | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...taking their places-not only for lack of money, but also because young Negroes commonly distrust the law in practice. Many see it in terms of white police and white judges using white law against blacks. The upshot is that only 2% of U.S. lawyers are black. They number about 3,000, and most of them work in Northern cities. In Mississippi, for example, where Negroes represent more than 42% of the state's population, there are only 17 black lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Learning the White Man's Law | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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