Word: entrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know, having worked with him on five films. Redford caused one of Goldman's projects to be cancelled because, after the phenomenal success of Butch Cassidy, he felt uneasy playing a character who was "kind of weak." During their fourth collaboration. All the President's Men, Redford refused to entrust Goldman with his home phone number. Then, out of jealousy for co-star Dustin Hoffman's character, he demanded that Goldman write in a love interest for him; and, in what Goldman justifiably terms a "gutless betroyal," Redford allowed Carl Bernstein and Nora Ephron to write a completely different draft...
...worsening internal climate inspired pessimism in Rome, where Pope John Paul II for the first time publicly cast doubt on his plans to travel to Poland in June. Praying to Our Lady of Czestochowa, Poland's most revered religious image, the Pope said, "To you I entrust if and how [the visit] will take place." The "if," said Vatican officials, reflected the Pope's concern that the recent developments might force him to cancel his visit...
...prime candidate for any major post that fell vacant in the Reagan Administration. "I met no one in public life for whom I developed greater respect and affection," wrote former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Years of Upheaval. "If I could choose one American to whom I would entrust the nation's fate in a crisis, it would be George Shultz." Soft-spoken and unassuming, Shultz provokes that kind of reaction from most of those who have worked with him. "He does his homework, he hears people out, and he is a consensus maker," says Jack Carlson...
...centralized in the hands of presidential assistants acting in secret from the rest of the Government. My friend David Bruce argued that if I was serious about making our achievements permanent, if I wanted to leave a legacy rather than a tour de force, we would have to entrust greater responsibility to the permanent officials of the State Department and the Foreign Service. This, Bruce suggested, could not happen while I dominated all decisions from my White House office...
...says that the U.S. must regain the peace initiative by showing a greater willingness to negotiate arms agreements with the Soviets. As he said at Cornell: "The U.S. must go back to the bargaining table and offer a challenge to the Soviets to reduce nuclear weapons. If not, we entrust our survival to leaders who believe that a limited nuclear war can be fought and won, and who might act on that belief...