Word: mistrust
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...truth. And in this respect they are to be taken as disciples and fervent followers of the dogma. Not much imagination, nor quick brains nor much intellectual baggage nor sensitivity-but enormous stores of character, undeviating loyalty to their creed, fanatic belief in their own cause, fanatic hatred and mistrust of anything else...
...strange, new lash-up in foreign affairs, a combination of economizers who don't care much about foreign aid and others who, caring a lot, mistrust the whole Administration Far Eastern program...
...Experiment in International Living was founded 17 years ago by Mr. Donald B. Watt in the town of Putney, Vermont, which today has a population of only 300. Watt's wish was to change "a world of nations, caught in a web of hatred, suspicion, and mistrust, into a world in which people feel a community of spirit." He makes it clear that the Experiment is "not a language school, it is no joy ride, and it has no axe to grind...
This alteration of the exhibit was one of the few cases where group pressure was able to change the policy of the delegation for, as Warshaw points out, the U. S. group worked in "an internal atmosphere of fear and suspicion. "The suspicion and mistrust within the group," he states, "worked against democracy and fair play...
...spite of some minor implausibilities, The Iron Curtain is a scrupulous and restrained movie, as well as a persuasive and exciting one. Under William Wellman's taut direction, it catches something of the soul-freezing discipline and mutual mistrust which must be the normal climate for totalitarian operations; something, too, of the way ardent amateurs in "front" groups are exploited. And near the end, when Gouzenko is trying hopelessly to find a Canadian who will listen to his story while the pursuers close in, the suspense is really awful...