Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sided. So far the United States has offered no explanation for its insistence on a yearly ban rather than a long-term cessation of testing. Some members of the Administration's higher echelons who have never favored a ban on nuclear testing have added to that feeling their political distrust of any agreement whatsoever with the Russians. It would seem that they have been mildly successful in persuading the Administration to move at a halting pace in the negotiations...
...bottom of this outburst of African against African last week lay a deep-seated envy and distrust. All through France's West African territories the best positions in government, business and industry are held by industrious citizens from Togoland and Dahomey. Nearly 100% of the Ivory Coast fisheries are in their hands. As more and more Frenchmen leave technical and administrative jobs, Dahomeyans and Togolanders win the competitions to replace them. Explained a French businessman: "The truth is that the people from Dahomey and Togoland are more intelligent, better trained and educated, more disciplined and harder working than...
There is nothing like an honest-to-God reactionary in politics to revive one's basic distrust of the voter. At the same time, the popularity of a political escapist acts to reassure one of the stubborn individualism which supposedly built the nation...
...Freedom is the condition necessary to the progress of society," Eliot told Reed's assembled class. "A striking phenomenon of our day is the distrust of freedom that is manifesting itself in all walks of life...
Others in his government, notably Chief of the General Staff "Tiger" Wang and Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, counseled patience and restraint. The U.S. launched the Warsaw talks, and Chiang, who privately viewed the talks with undisguised distrust, agreed to wait until they had proved a success or had conclusively failed...