Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this day and age of the vulnerable and non-aggressive male it is difficult to say no to another in a long line of complaints about us men by women who seem to even distrust us for being the side of the human species we are. I agree that it was wrong for you to be treated as you were by the detectives, Ms. Sharp, but I cannot agree that the incident is another case of men not acting as they should, perhaps a la Dustin Hoffman, but as they must because, after all, they were...
Capitalism will face serious challenges in the Third World during the 1980s. The colonial era is only just over; distrust of the old rulers and their economic systems runs high in developing countries. OPEC's price increases are just the first grab by these countries...
Children pick up from these parents a sense of danger, distrust and the fragility of life. The parents tend to view the very existence of their offspring as a final triumph over Hitler and antiSemitism. But for the child, it can mean an overwhelming pressure to compensate for dead relatives and justify the parents' lives. "Some of these children don't feel they have a right to be happy," says Toronto Psychiatrist Henry Fenigstein, a camp survivor himself. "The child begins to feel that whether the parent says it or not, he or she must vindicate...
...prose is remarkably untortured, simply but elegantly stated. For her, Robert Lowell "learned to tame the apocalyptic to the eternal dailiness of life"; Sylvia Plath "would like, in distrust of mind, to trust nature, and yet she...refuses nature any honorable estate of its own"; of Frank O'Hara, "The wish not to impute significance has rarely been stronger in lyric poetry...
...retrieval of the fabulous wealth he has plundered. The Panamanian government, encouraged by Washington and prominent pro-Shah U.S. citizens, played games and lied to us all along. We are not back to Square One. But we have lost considerable ground because of the people's renewed distrust of international...