Word: mistrustfully
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...diplomats and military leaders in the capital who had previously stood aloof were now actively urging that the South Korean military keep clear of politics, and that Choi's civilian post-Park regime try to broaden its popular base. Reason: a major fear in Washington that if internecine mistrust in South Korea's top military leadership gets much worse, it might render the country dangerously open to invasion by the Communist regime in North Korea...
...public is lower than that of many other professions." There are three things wrong with that statement. Newspaper editing isn't a profession, its public standing is about as high as it ever is, and polls on such nebulous questions chiefly reflect the current soggy miasma of public mistrust about all American institutions...
...meeting could be little more than an anticlimactic signing ceremony, tediously stretched out over four days. It would also be a lost, probably last opportunity for these two men, who are meeting for the first time, to thresh out some of their differences in a period of deep mistrust and misunderstanding between the superpowers...
...this prank laughs off a more serious theme of the class's years here. McCarthy scared Harvard. Charging that the faculty was "pink-tinged," he created an atmosphere of mistrust and precipitated internal struggles at the University. David L. Shapiro, professor of Law, says, "The fact of McCarthyism was our significant external concern--the only time we felt acutely the presence of the outside world...
...reputation of Harvard University as a bastion of Western cultural and intellectual tradition is especially strong in the emerging African elites. But many in that group mistrust the West because of the years of European colonialism, the long period of total support by the West of white supremacy in South Africa, and the continuing refusal to back U.N. sanctions against South Africa. Seen in this context, Harvard is faced with the choice of a policy of ambivalence on apartheid (opposing it in words while at the same time profiting from it)--which can only cause cynicism among Africans...