Word: distrustfully
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...council social workers used the slow approach. They began by loafing near gang hangouts, gradually drawing the boys into conversation, playing the jukebox with them, letting them cadge occasional cigarettes. As distrust faded, the council men identified themselves, proved that they were not cops and not out to nag, report the gang members or break their gangs. On the contrary, they were available for advice, an occasional two-bit loan, or help in arranging for the use of a gym or a place to hold a dance...
Though the narrators' hints alert the audience to distrust Eve, the early sequences make her wholly sympathetic. She seems "a lamb loose in our big stone jungle," humble, gracious, utterly devoted to the tempestuous big star (Bette Davis) who adopts her as a secretary-handmaiden. Subtly at first, then with fine crescendo effect, Mankiewicz reveals her as an ambitious fanatic who stops at nothing-deceit, betrayal, assignation, blackmail-to knife...
...last week's decision to send more U.S. troops to Germany (see above), Reuter's long campaign was beginning finally to bear fruit. But the Allied sense of urgency was still muffled by distrust of the Germans. Twice within a generation they had goose-stepped Europe, and the world, into war. Fellow Europeans had a saying: "The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet." Looking at the old enemy as a new friend, they could not help but ask: "The Germans to arms-again? And if not . . .?" The Western world was slowly coming...
...their own cultural tradition, a stern code of honor and a justified hatred of the white invaders. Their tribal chief, Cochise (well played by Jeff Chandler), is an able strategist and a wise statesman. The story works up such sympathy and respect for him and his tribe, and such distrust of their ignorant, arrogant enemies, that most moviegoers will be delighted whenever another paleface bites the dust...
Physicist Seitz knows that some of his colleagues hate to develop new means of mass slaughter. They distrust military men, cringe at the thought of exposing themselves to spy hunts. But Dr. Seitz is convinced that they must. Otherwise, they will endanger "the most important ideals which have been evolved by mankind since the dawn of civilization . . . Who among us will feel sinless if he has remained passively by while Western culture was being overwhelmed...