Word: distrusters
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...women said that their dissatisfaction with the lack of tangible evidence of the University's commitment to Affirmative Action is gradually amounting to distrust...
...Lasswell-McKenna report on Bedford-Stuyvesant calls for legalizing gambling as a means of taking the play away from criminals. A measure that would amend the constitution to legalize gambling is now before the New York legislature. Poor blacks tend to be against such a change because they distrust government, and they figure that the proceeds from gambling would be taken away from the black numbers runners and other local operatives. In addition, numbers men now extend credit to their customers, but legal betting parlors demand cash. Lisle C. Carter, a Cornell University sociologist, notes that ghetto crime...
...type of international machinery to channel reconstruction efforts so that they do not become the exclusive concern of any one country and become an international effort. There were thoughts of an international consortium where the Vietnamese would have a very large say because they have a very great distrust for international bodies...
...hardest for an end to manned space flight so that funds can be diverted to social needs on earth, cannot gainsay Apollo's ultimate value. The dramatic landings on the moon won acclaim and worldwide respect for America in a decade when the U.S. garnered more disapproval and distrust than at any other time in its history. Wherever touring astronauts appeared, on either side of the Iron Curtain, they were cheered by huge, admiring crowds...
...effect is of too much strength, as in a muscle-bound cantilevered lecture hall at New York University. The Housing and Urban Development Department Building in Washington, despite its excellent detailing, looks ponderous. One problem, perhaps, is that such buildings are monumental in an age that is beginning to distrust monuments...