Word: mistrustful
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...discussion of disintegrating military alliances leads to the question of German reunification. And that prospect will probably keep the Poles firmly tethered to the Warsaw Pact. Polish mistrust of the Germans cuts deep, dating back to the 13th century. Logic dictates that Poland, repeatedly divided during the 18th and 19th centuries, should sympathize with the Germanys' desire to reunite. But the thought of 78 million Germans under one flag next door is enough to give even the most zealous reformer pause. "We already detect a growth of German assertiveness," warns a leading Polish economist. Says Bromke: "The Warsaw Pact...
...convene an Estonian National Congress to discuss the fate of the nation. Organizers deny that they are creating a rival parliamentary body, but the fact that some 100,000 people have responded has caused concern within the ranks of the party and the Popular Front, and deepened the mistrust of the Russian minority...
...know a single thoughtful and well-informed person," George Bernard Shaw once said, "who does not feel that the tragedy of illness at present is that it delivers you helplessly into the hands of a profession which you deeply mistrust...
...Israelis who meet regularly with an equally small number of Palestinians for round-table discussions that have all the naive earnestness of 1960s-style encounter-group sessions. Their meetings are arranged secretly with code words; they debate over coffee and cake in one another's homes; they talk about mistrust and victimization. The Jews recall the Holocaust, the Palestinians the humiliation of Israel's occupation. In common, they all deplore the intransigence of Israel's political leadership...
...THIS mistrust often translates into arrogance. Harvard seems to feel that neither its students nor its alumni are worth accepting advice from, but they work very hard to convince us that we should remember Harvard and all the good it did for us by giving money as generously...