Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced that in 1956 it will spend a record $1.1 billion on expansion: 50% on searching for new oil, 25% on refineries, and the rest for new transportation and marketing facilities to get its products to consumers. Little Man Beware. In Wall Street there are still some experts who distrust the supposedly uninformed small investors; they like to quote the old saw that "when the little man comes in, it is time for the professional to get out." Actually, thanks to President Funston and the vigorous campaigning of brokerage houses that conduct stock-market classes all over...
Apathy toward reunification is also attributable to some of the regional jealousies and suspicions that originally hindered for so long the development of a German nation. There is still a lingering distrust in the Catholic South for the Protestant East, and no little hatred for the Prussians who, as one Stuttgart man said, "got us into this whole thing in the first place." But beyond any such specific suspicions, there is a lack of a real national feeling in Germany today. As the mayor of a small German city said after a visit to America, "Americans think of Germans...
John Foster Dulles also predicted that certain long-term advantages might accrue to the West. The Russians, he reasoned, could not arouse the hopes of mankind for peace, and then crumple them, without meriting a new surge of world bitterness and distrust. Dulles felt that nations, like individuals, could become creatures of their own behavior: if the Russians talked long enough about removing the causes of world tensions, they might eventually find themselves compelled to start removing them. Dulles' theory was founded upon a belief that the Russians needed a breathing spell for which they would pay a price...
...been lumped with U.S. military aid programs into the Mutual Security Administration. Under Eisenhower this unwanted orphan of the Democrats became the Foreign Operation Administration. With each change in name the American technical assistance program has become more political and less humanitarian in purpose, until now, under-developed countries distrust it as savoring of imperialism an enforced American ideas, Egypt was ready to respond to U.S. technical assistance only as long as no military-alliance strains were attached...
Midnight-riding cops shot and killed two men, described in communiqués as "Communist elements." The press, which has generally approved of Castillo Armas, was dismayed. El Impartial feared the re-establishment of the "abominable climate of fear and distrust" of Ubico's times...