Word: mistrust
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...meeting of a board of directors . . . I saw the glow of fanatical eyes over narrow cheeks. These cheeks are now fuller, the lips somewhat heavier; yet these eyes, which now search the depths of other mysteries, can still laugh gaily or shoot lightnings of mistrust...
...magnitude is worthy of the greatest effort and concentration on the part of those who meet in international amateur sport. They can achieve results which bring the people of various nations together on the firm ground of mutual understanding, appreciation and trust which goes far to eliminate jealousy, mistrust, and danger of war. To successfully achieve such a splendid and desirable objective raises International Tennis to lofty standards far more important than the game itself...
...administration, scrupulously honorable in his engagements, and completely impatient of fallacious economics. Even in his youth he played his part against greenback inflation, and for the risky and speculative methods of Wall Street railroad amalgamation, whose excesses were justified only by their aggregate brilliant results, he had an inherent mistrust. He was a stubborn fighter but invariably a good loser. His resentment of the prohibition amendment, and his efforts for its repeal, were characteristic of his sturdy individualism...
However, Dr. Fosdick stated that he was not predicting a return to dogma, but rather a growing mistrust in the intellect as the sole guide of life without reference to the spiritual side...
...events. Clemenceau himself has seen two invasions of la patrie and has seen German signatures in the waste basket "because of necessity". "If a man fails to back his check would you bankers trust him for another?" Undoubtedly not; yet some still say the French are imperialistic because they mistrust Germany; and that the pessimistic warning of another Junker monarchy is absurd. The answer is "we have seen it and we know". America cannot say the same...