Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...some days after the initial impact of the news, British faith in U.S. leadership was never lower, British distrust of the U.S.'s motives and methods never so strong. Resentment was nearly unanimous, and MacArthur became the whipping...
...defense of Western Europe, like a rudderless ship, was tossing about last week on mounting waves of distrust...
...state. But listeners have also heard that Britain has "moved into the twilight and confusion and frustration of a Planned Economy" and it is beginning to realize that it has "lost much of" its "precious heritage of freedom." According to America's Future, England has "wide-spread poverty, despair, distrust among friends and antagonism between employer and employee...
There are other examples, based on far less apocryphal stories, of the process doing some good. Einstein's skeptical attitude towards Newton's is one; the geometricians' distrust of Euclid is another. Bentham refused to accept the "natural laws, natural rights," theories of previous economists; Susan B. Anthony skeptically disagreed with the idea that only men could vote. None of these people claimed to be right or wrong in the absolutist sense of Father Feeney; they simply questioned the status quo. And in every case their questioning has helped mankind along. As long as man keeps on scratching his head...
American's distrust of art and tradition--in fact the American refusal to grow up--is reflected in Walt Whitman's poetry, Thornton Wilder said last night. He delivered the last of the Charles Eliot Norton lectures before a capacity crowd in New Lecture Hall...