Word: chafing
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...that the U.S. faced increasing antagonism among Okinawa's 600,000 people. Despite the prosperity brought by 55,000 U.S. military personnel and their dependents, Okinawans resent the fact that the U.S. has commandeered one-fifth of the crowded island's arable land for military use, chafe under the U.S. refusal to consider returning the island to Japan "in the foreseeable future." * After Moore's highhanded tactics with Senaga, feeling ran so high that no pro-American candidate dared even enter the race...
This schedule leaves Columnist Miller almost no time for relaxation, or for more than a peep at his three-month-old daughter, but he does not chafe at being chained to a golden keyhole. "I consider my work just fabulous," young Miller confides...
...charge of work on the first crude airborne fire-control systems, later headed an Army Ordnance study that led to the development of the first Nike guided missile. By 1946 Wooldridge was chief of Bell's physical electronics department. Yet life in an ivory tower began to chafe. Says Wooldridge: "I began to realize that I was not cut out to be a scholar. I was much more interested in work that would lead to a practical application...
...along the same track of thought, got three chronologically (Adams. Jefferson, Van Buren), jumped to the latest-Harry Truman-then to Coolidge and then agonized for a while before naming Teddy Roosevelt. Van Doren, who risks losing $42,000, perhaps even more, of his big pot, was beginning to chafe at the tension: "It's like a full house in a poker game when there's a lot of money going." Vivienne Nearing. whose policy is to go for the big questions because she knows that that is Van Doren's game, will probably stick...
...attended two "institutes," the institutes have no record of him. Malraux, ever willing to foster the legend of himself, has always refused to supply detailed data on his personal life. But somehow he acquired a vast knowledge of archaeology, art and ancient cultures. Already, he had begun to chafe at the bourgeoisie's world of "fact, ordered by no transcendence, and subjecting them to nothing," and yearned to "leave a scar on the face of the earth...