Word: mistrustful
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...whipped his people to a higher emotional pitch than he recognized, and intermixed the issue with his own prestige -a serious mistake for a dictator caught precariously between a people he is not sure of, a Soviet government that hates him for a heretic, and cautious Western friends who mistrust him for being a passionate Communist. The public reaction now stirred Dictator Tito to a more dangerous course...
Cocaine & Catharsis. Martha put up with all this because she knew that Sigi was madly in love with her, and that he was one of those men who cannot express their love until they have first released a spate of anger and mistrust. She also knew that he was an ambitious man fighting desperately against poverty and putting aside every penny to be able to marry her. His high-strung state at this time is shown by a clinical anecdote. Expecting a visit from Martha, Freud found that when he laid his stethoscope on a patient's heart...
MANY Europeans and Asians mistrust the tendency to dragoon the whole world into two big-power blocs, each professing the noblest intentions and emitting, alternately, highfalutin slogans about democracy and Tarzanlike boasts of invincible might. We have seen this tendency in American and Soviet policy alike. We believe that it is wrong in itself, and likelier to lead to war than to peace...
...starchy back benches of the Tory Party, whose men are properly silent in public and often violently articulate in private. Though the handsome and gregarious Philip takes his job seriously and is increasingly popular with the British public, he is not universally beloved by England's bluebloods. They mistrust him: his politics are comparatively liberal; he plays loose with some of the stuffier conventions of the palace; he is a foreigner-a Greek prince naturalized as a British citizen; but above all, he is a Battenberg, and a nephew of the dashing, controversial Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma...
...West, like its principal challenger, Russia, is an "ex-Christian" civilization. But not only is the West without a faith; it is "the arch-aggressor of modern times." The World, and especially Russia, "invaded by Western armies overland in 1941, 1915, 1812, 1709 and 1610," has reason to mistrust the West. Toynbee avoids embarrassing this general thesis by any mention of the invasions of the West by the World, e.g., those of Islam and Genghis Khan...