Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This basic distrust is articulated in the language of war and conspiracy. The Japanese don't contribute to the U.S. trade deficit with superior products--they are carrying out some master plan. Japanese investments--which actually employ hundreds of American workers--begin to take on the overtones of a plot...
...lecture series the BSA was hosting. The reporter then asked whether this meant that BSA endorsed Jeffries' reported racism; the young man said no, it did not, and added that he was pretty skeptical anyway about those reports--coming as they did from the "white media." This distrust for the "white media" struck me as absurd--was he just saying this crap so he could get on TV? But after seeing some distortions of Jeffries' speech, I can see why some members of the Black community might develop distrust for media coverage of Jeffries...
What Herod saw was America in the late 1980s and early '90s, right down to that dire phrase "New Age." A society obsessed with therapies and filled with distrust of formal politics, skeptical of authority and prey to superstition, its political language corroded by fake pity and euphemism. A nation like late Rome in its long imperial reach, in the corruption and verbosity of its senators, in its reliance on sacred geese (those feathered ancestors of our own pollsters and spin doctors) and in its submission to senile, deified Emperors controlled by astrologers and extravagant wives. A culture that...
Johnson's distrust of Vice President Hubert Humphrey has never been so starkly chronicled. He stripped Humphrey of authority on civil rights programs in a brutal maneuver that went through Califano. "He has Minnesota running- water disease," L.B.J. roared. "I've never known anyone from Minnesota that could keep their mouth shut. It's just something in the water out there." Johnson peevishly curtailed his political appointees from helping Humphrey in the campaign of 1968; Humphrey lost to Nixon by half a percentage point...
...incidents over the past few weeks have resulted in strife and dissension, and a climate of distrust has taken over on campus. Feelings have been hurt and people have taken sides. How do we repair the damage and move forward to encourage and enhance a sense of community linking our commonalities while cherishing our differences? There has been enough misunderstanding and bad feelings on all sides...