Word: trustingness
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British Governor General Sir Knox Helm (since resigned) ordered the Negro soldiers to surrender to the authorities. Trusting the British, some 700 mutineers gave themselves up, but a campaign of counterterror launched by the northern Sudanese put the rest to flight. Some Negro rebels cast off their uniforms and returned...
"The federal government will continue to pursue a policy of German reunification in close and trusting cooperation with its allies," said Von Brentano. "It rejects any thought of endangering this infinitely valuable friendship and the support it implies by any hesitancy, inconstancy or lack of frankness. It knows very well...
The fact is that all four powers shared one ambition at Geneva: to relax world tensions. No one of them was in position either to impose, or to make, major concessions, but they could agree to moderate their voices. In doing so, the West was not trusting in Russian smiles...
When Actor Victor Moore's father lay on his deathbed, he looked up and saw a strange physician hovering over him "I know you're a bum doctor, but you look like Tony Hart," the dying man muttered and closed his eyes in trusting contentment. Ned Harrigan'...
THE TRUSTING AND THE MAIMED, AND OTHER IRISH STORIES, by James Plunkett (220 pp.; Devin-Adair; $3), is the work of a brand-new Irish author, a Dublin trade-union official who writes excellent short stories on the side. When he wants to, as in a glitteringly ironic piece called...