Word: mistrust
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...over the likelihood of substitution, and engineers are already eying Ford's elaborate, automatic machines for making cylinder sleeves. Overnight these can be adapted, with no essential changes, to making 80,000 sleeve-like steel shell casings per day. The Army eyes the whole project with faint, traditional mistrust...
...mellow, flute-playing historian last week dedicated a book about Franklin Roosevelt. Called Roosevelt: Dictator or Democrat,* the book has for its author Gerald White Johnson, a 51-year-old editorial writer of the Baltimore Evening Sun. For its object the book has the aim of reducing the mistrust which many of the 22,000,000 Americans who voted against Roosevelt have for their President...
...philological emphasis which was the Kittredge tradition. But those of us who studied in that tradition, even though we may have moved in other directions since, owe it a great debt. We were taught to be accurate, to respect external facts more than our own interpretations of them, to mistrust cloudiness and generality. Mr. Kittredge was the embodiment of a whole era in American literacy scholarship, and it is a tribute to the force of his personality that when we think era, we think chiefly...
...Shah grew in power, his mistrust of British Imperialism grew with it and he began to spit in the Lion's eye. In 1931 he forbade Imperial Airways to fly over Iranian territory. Spit most staggering to the Lion was his sudden cancellation in 1932 of the old William Knox D'Arcy contract which had now burgeoned into the monster British Government-subsidized Anglo-Persian (later Anglo-Iranian) Oil Co. Iran was getting 16% of the net profits. The Shah wanted 21%. The British took the squabble before the League of Nations. The Shah got what he wanted...
Strength of the N.C.C.J. is that it makes no attempt to water down the religious convictions of Protestants, Catholics and Jews to a least common denominator. Instead, it tries to promote inter-faith and interracial good will by eliminating mutual mistrust based on ignorance. The movement's ultimate aim: to make the world safe for differences...