Word: distrusters
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...office, where she startled visitors by leaping onto their shoulders and removing their hats. An air of amiable amateurishness is carefully cultivated in Britain's public schools, and often seems to pervade its diplomacy. On the eve of World War II, Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax drawled: "I distrust anyone who foresees consequences and advocates remedies to avert them...
...Diefenbaker had only distrust. He privately called President Kennedy "that young fool," says Newman, and when Kennedy made a state visit to Ottawa in 1961, the welcome was chilly. At a breakfast meeting, Kennedy showed Diefenbaker a five-item U.S. "working paper" for the talks (samples: inviting Canadian support for the Alliance for Progress, more Canadian backing for foreign aid). Diefenbaker neatly wrote "no" beside each item. Later Kennedy misplaced the paper. Diefenbaker found and kept...
...Roads to Sumter describes a partisan distrust plaguing the whole political background of the War. The Cattons argue that North and South fought because the moderates in both sections receded toward extremism until compromise on slavery and secession became impossible. "By the end of 1859 the two sections had essentially lost the power to communicate." Basic and forth-right disagreement on the democratic ideal of freedom and the nature of the Union drove Americans into belligerent postures whose consequences they did not want...
...weight of medical opinion clearly supports it; public health officials from the national level down have issued endorsements; most large cities (with the notable exceptions of Boston, New York, and Los Angeles) have been fluoridating their water for years. An expert on Cambridge politics, who believes that ignorance and distrust are basic factors in the controversy, explains simply that "the uneducated people in East Cambridge think the educated people in West Cambridge are trying to poison them...
...corresponded for 46 years. Frost, a man who could not write a note for the milk man without giving it his own distinctive twist, writes over the long years of recurring tragedy in his own family, his endless gripes with little worlds of editors, politicians and educators, his deep distrust of liberalism, and his fierce judgment of his fellow writers...