Word: mistrust
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People Blight. Even so, to come this far 4-H has already moved piles of rural conservatism. Agricultural lobbies, including the purebred cattlemen's associations, mistrust urban 4-H programs because they divert extension experts from the agribusiness. The governing board of this year's Indiana State Fair has not provided space for several displays produced by the new urban projects. Although the fair managers plead that the programs are still too insignificant to be represented, to State Leader Frickey the omission is symptomatic. "They'll have an exhibit on corn blight, and that's fine...
...total of the defeat seemed in the end to be the result of two major forces-the belief that if Carswell were to gain the seat the young blacks would be confirmed in their mistrust of the system, and the bumbling of Nixon and his Attorney General, John Mitchell. Scratch the miracle, Harris implies, and the better part of Carswell's defeat must be credited not to the indignation of the nation and its representatives, but to the Executive's stupidity...
...rests with both parties. During the first half of the century middle class men and women, like William Monroe Trotter of Boston, had given their talents, resources and lives in an effort to form such a union, only to be abandoned by the masses. Such experiences had, created a mistrust of the masses on the part of the middle class which further partitioned the community-in effect, kept it from becoming a community...
...Grinspoon disagrees with this attitude, arguing that enough experiments have been done to create a "strong impression" of the relative (to tobacco and alcohol) safety of marihuana. Meanwhile, the harm to young people done by punitive legislation and the harm to legal institutions caused by attitudes of mistrust among dope users are more damaging than the social use of marihuana could ever...
Rivers held a deep mistrust of the press, and with some reason. He was keelhauled by the Washington press corps for his marathon drinking bouts. When he became chairman of the Armed Services Committee, however, he swore off liquor and kept the pledge...