Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Such a trust, Adlai Stevenson is today charging, was placed on General Eisenhower in 1952, when the nation sent him to the White House with the largest popular vote in the country's history. But instead of using his popularity to sweep away McCarthyism, or to build needed schools, or to speed up the process of integration, Eisenhower has often tried to maintain personal popularity. The President's silence has left the nation devoid of inspired direction where a constructive, carefully formulated public opinion is most vital...
...colleges and universities of America flows a current of creative power vital to our society--a current steadily growing to meet the increasing demands called for by our widening responsibilities as a nation. Our colleges and universities prepare more and more young people in each generation for positions of trust in the adult life of our society while at the same time the complexities of that society steadily and inexorably multiply. In particular the call for individuals of increased insight, wider knowledge, firmer direction, and all the other qualities of mind and will which it is the colleges' chief purpose...
...reminder: "I'm out of a job, you know." At political coffee hours in the homes of friendly Republicans, his smiling wife Mabel passes out angel-food cake recipes while Doug attacks Wayne Morse ("that fellow has gone back on his word so many times that nobody can trust him") and reminisces about his Oregon youth ("The only reading matter we had was the St. Helens Sentinel-Mist, the Bible and the Sears, Roebuck catalogue"). Glowed a recent convert to McKay's cause: "Just look at old Doug-the second Cabinet member* Oregon's ever...
...down. Somebody remarked that there are 250,000 plankton in a teaspoonful of sea water, I eyed my glass. There is no trust in the world, I thought, and somebody asked how large, really, is a portuguese man o'war? "You must be using a magnifying glass on your lens...
...secret letter continued: "While we must trust the sincere intentions of public media within our community, a matter of this nature would be best trested if it were not made 'news...