Word: trustingness
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Vast Range. Turner's was not a "normal" life but a long exertion. He had little art training. His father, a Covent Garden wigmaker, exploited him, egging him on to turn out hundreds of bread-and-butter illustrations. His mother died mad, which seems to have inhibited Turner from...
Too Trusting. Gurney denies the charges. Blaming Williams for illegal fund raising, Gurney says he was "careless and unobservant and too trusting." The day before the indictments were handed down, he mailed off his qualifying papers for September's primary, but he may well withdraw. His trial is not...
Is Jackson more trusting of the Chinese than the Soviets? Not necessarily, but, as he explains: "The Chinese are not a superpower in the strict nuclear sense, so my approach to them at this juncture in our relationship obviously involves different issues than it does with the Soviet Union."
détente is not so much a question of trusting the Russians. It is rather a question of analyzing motives and interests and judging whether they coincide. Beyond everything else is the mutual desire to stay alive. "They don't want to live in an era of incalculable dangers...
Vorenberg, who works for special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski, said the Watergate period is "making cynics out of trusting believers."