Word: mistrustful
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...very short period, Poland's martial law rulers have managed to create an insidious mistrust in their country. The generals have succeeded in crushing the organization known as Solidarity and damaging the solidarity of the people of Poland. But the deep feeling of being one nation, which was ignited by Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland in 1979 and that kept the authorities at bay for 16 months after August 1980, has not been entirely extinguished...
...Poles for the past century and a half has risen in arms. This penchant for rebellion?evident again in Solidarity?prompted Karl Marx to call Poland the "thermometer of the intensity and vitality of all revolutions since 1789." Successive occupations and uprisings, moreover, gave Poles a deep-rooted mistrust of foreign-imposed governments and sharpened their skills at organizing broad-based conspiracies. It also increased their pride in the past. Many of Solidarity's buttons show the Polish eagle adorned with the crown that was banned by the Communists...
because I mistrust history in gallon jugs whose purveyors are more concerned with establishing the meaning and purpose of history than with what happened. Is it necessary to insist on a purpose?... Why cannot history be studied and written and read for its own sake, as the record of human behavior, the most fascinating subject...
POLITICAL ILLUSIONS--the blue smoke and mirrors that have accompanied Reaganomics, for instance--are maintained only by hope. It's the same sort of hope that benefits salesmen of snake oil and patent medicine; people ache so badly for relief that they suspend cynicism and mistrust...
...spite of strong American support for Solidarity, the independent Polish trade union, in its challenge to Communist domination, the Polish people mistrust both the United States and the Soviet Union, a leading Polish journalist said yesterday...