Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this decade you have separated "business" and "industry" from the ordinary lives of the people and have applied against them a philosophy of hate and mistrust, but we, the people, say: business and industry are part of our daily lives; in hurting them you hurt us. Therefore abandon this attitude of hate and set our enterprises free...
...escaped prisoners hide out in a velvet-fogged marsh, full of artistically silhouetted reeds, which belongs, if anywhere, in Coronet. Heisler's exhaustion, fear and mistrust are merely stage props, never a living agony of nerves and soul. Tracy himself, careful and sincere and able as he is, is wrong for the role. By strong implication in the novel, George Heisler was a dramatically and morally fascinating species of human being, typical of 20th-century Europe if unfamiliar in the U.S.-a seasoned and astute professional revolutionist. George Heisler as presented in this cautious film is wholly nonpolitical except...
...slogan of the day: "The Only National Debt We Can Never Pay Is the Debt We Owe to the Victorious Union Soldiers." With bonuses and back pay the average private left the army with $250 in his pocket. But as the tumult and the shouting died, the old civilian mistrust of the soldier revived. Jobs were easy to find, but veterans often discovered that an ,army record was something to conceal rather than to display. "The veteran," wrote one newspaper, "has encouraged tales of his whiskey-drinking abilities, [recklessness] and foraging [until] citizens believe that the army has acted...
...Naturally all this evokes discontent among the experienced generals and fans mistrust in Hitler's leadership. But generals who resent such a situation are compelled to be silent, as Field Marshal Keitel declared that all criticism of the German leadership would be punished by death...
...Meuse-Argonne and St. Mihiel offensives. It lived on in his hearty mule-driver's language and his adoption of T.R.'s "strenuous life," even to a half-hour's vigorous daily exercise until a week before his death. Politically it was manifest in his early mistrust of Roosevelt II (he called for "fewer and better Roosevelts", and in 1936 he was the Republicans' violently anti-New Deal vice-presidential nominee). But in June 1940, Knox and fellow Republican Henry L. Stimson entered Franklin Roosevelt's cabinet. He knew the move would be linked with...