Word: mistrust
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...afraid, apparently, that mistakes will be made, that some future President, Senate, House, and electorate will depart from the political ideas which they deem immutable. Aside from the arrogance of this stand, its rationale, that paralysis is better than risk of error, is appalling. It reflects the same mistrust of power that today makes France the picture of chaos. Even granting that the view of human nature taken by the founding fathers is less than optimistic, the cringing lack of faith in America's institutions and in the judgment of its citizens shown by the Bricker bloc is too morose...
...time when the United States must maintain good relations with its allies, Arthur E. Sutherland, prefessor of Law, felt that the isolationist implications of the amendment would prove harmful. He said that the amendment would be "advertising by our most serious and grave action," a mistrust of our friends...
...postwar Premier, slipped in like a silent bystander, unable to speak English, unwilling to say much anyway-lest it offend those back home who were considering him as a candidate for France's next President. At his side was pale, ailing Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. The two Frenchmen mistrust each other; in fact, through the 18-hour flight from Paris, the Premier spoke not a word to the Foreign Minister. Neither was sure he would even be in office a month hence, when France gets a new President and a new government, nor could either say surely where...
Truman was invited as a "trusted and beloved champion of civil liberties and bitter opponent of McCarthyism." He was asked to debate with the "man who has done more than any other to sow fear and mistrust among the American people through his methods--Senator McCarthy...
...fertile out-of-state undergraduate source. In fact, of the Brown alumni killed in the Civil War, almost half were Confederates who had come North to gain a New England Baptist education. But Brown has gradually lost its liberal Baptist tinge, and the Southern hard-shells have grown to mistrust anything north of the Mason-Dixon...