Word: mistrust
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...star of the educational motion picture is definitely in the ascendant, despite the mistrust that its distant cousin, the ordinary movie has aroused in the minds of those who mistrust macadamized roads to learning. In the fields of science, the films have proven their value in illustrating processes that are not susceptible to demonstration in the ordinary way. For example, the physics class can see the intangible force of magnetism made concrete by animated drawings, while the biology class can watch, clearly enough on the screen, the moving forms of a tiny organism and the mysterious division of a living...
...oldest martyr people in the world! What pen can describe the wrongs and cruelties we have borne in the course of thousands of years? What good the nations have done us by such action as the Balfour Declaration is not kindness. Shall we now be driven into mistrust of mankind?" Fervently he quoted a Jew from Kishinev who cried: "God save us from commissions and we'll save ourselves from pogroms...
...faithful of the Kaiser's servants, President of the Reich to succeed President Ebert. They did, but they forgot the old man's sense of duty. When he took the oath to defend the German Constitution he meant every word of it. He has not deviated. Germans mistrust their politicians but they trust Old Paul. They know he is incorruptible, ein' feste burg. That Iron Chancellor Brüning is a Hindenburg disciple is his greatest strength...
...That the cessation of economic aggression would help put an end to the present atmosphere of mistrust, uncertainty and alarm weighing so heavily upon the economic position...
...There were strange and disquieting elements in his work which for a long time baffled and disturbed the public of America. . . . They misunderstood, if they did not mistrust, an eroticism so exquisite and distinguished. Better Renoir and Matisse, they thought, and the more primary Freudian reactions of such masters than a painter so intent on capturing and passing on to us the heat, the fever, almost the libido, of a colored fabric, a seated girl or a garden flower...