Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This movie might better have been titled "The Treasure of Sierra Mombasa" or "King Solomon's Mimes." With snarling distrust and open greed. Hero Wilde keeps a bloodshot eye on his brother's two partners, now his. because they are just as mean and avaricious as he is. In fact, Wilde distrusts the whole safari-even the coy lady anthropologist (Donna Reed) and her missionary uncle (Leo Genn), and certainly the natives, as shifty-eyed a pack as ever whetted spears. The snail's pace direction makes it seem they will never find that blasted mine...
...acres of farmland, get their wages-if any-in the wheat and sugar-beet yield of the land itself. With holdings averaging 20 acres or less apiece, the farmers are themselves poor, bitter, hard pressed. For years the richest harvest reaped in the Valley has been one of violence, distrust and hatred...
...narrowly based, and that if he could keep out the corrupt and reactionary old politicians, he would like to revive democracy in Egypt. In fact, his narrow little junta of officers have neither the competence, the imagination or the time to administer Egypt's economy; in their distrust of everything past and pro-Western, they have shut themselves off from the middle-class Egyptians who have experience in government, law and business. Last week Nasser called for candidates to list themselves for an election to be held on the eve of the revolution's fifth birthday next month...
Publisher Knight's first stirrings of distrust became evident last summer, when he warned of a new burst of inflation. His papers made their first direct attack on the President last January over one of the purely professional issues-the way advance news of the Eisenhower Doctrine was leaked to a few papers-that prompted some of the rare harsh press criticism of the Administration...
With publication of the $71.8 billion budget, Knight's mounting distrust of Eisenhower's fiscal philosophy hardened and deepened. He started lashing out at foreign-policy "fumbling," at the "incredible" Secretary of State, the weakening of the Western alliance; in his concern with Government costs he moved inevitably closer to isolationism...