Word: mistrustful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Last week brought good and realistic news to all those advocates of hemisphere solidarity who fear that the phrase may remain only a phrase. Mistrust of U.S. intentions, plus mistrust of U.S. ability to take effective military action in the far south, had hitherto hampered U.S. efforts to get military cooperation from those countries which lie south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Last fortnight Argentina's Foreign Minister Emeritus, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, urged a conference of Foreign Ministers of the 21 American republics to agree on plans for common defense (TIME, June 16). Last week such a conference seemed...
Railroad bonds rose even farther than stocks. Such second-rate liens as Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) 4s and 4 1/2s, Southern Pacific 45, were bought in large blocks. Thanks to Wall Street's year-old mistrust of the defense boom, the abrupt conclusion of which might send many railroads into bankruptcy, these bonds could be bought at prices to yield as much as 20%. Wall Street still distrusts the boom. But it could not overlook the rising curve of railroad traffic...