Word: mistrustful
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...drew cheers from the audience when he assured it that the Peace Corps would not be wholly a government project. He noted the political mistrust that must accompany an official program, and cited the value that independent volunteer groups can have...
...President's report proves that, as the report says, the concept of federal aid to the universities can be viewed not as a grounds for mistrust but as a partnership. Not only the content of this report but also its very existence supports its finding that in the future of this partnership "the right note is one of hope, not fear...
...that infuriates activists on both ends of the spectrum. In order to get the liberal bills through and please the North, he has stripped them of those clauses most offensive to the South. And so on, and so on, and so on. For this he has the respect and mistrust of every one of his colleagues...
...case, the omission of the price tag is the weakest point in Kennedy's argument. As Galbraith writes, again in The Liberal Hour, "If we haven't yet learned to mistrust, indeed to ignore, the man who talks about high national purpose and then omits all mention of the price--or perhaps urges strict economy in public outlays as one of his higher purposes--our case could be pretty...
...feminine character structure" and "suggested by such items as triviality, distractibility, and diffuseness; lack of an organizing center or focus; dependence on others for one's own self-definition; tolerance at the expense of standards of excellence; inability to respect the boundaries of privacy; sentimentality, gossipy sociability, and mistrust of reason -in short, underdevelopment or negation of self...