Word: discontentment
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Cares. No one has been more attentive to this trend than Richard Nixon, who has played on the ethnics' discontent. In speech after speech, he has extolled their place in U.S. society-most recently at the base of the Statue of Liberty, where he told ethnics, holding placards and...
Undeniably there has also been a zigzag effect in the press. Many reporters who were taken aback by McGovern's success in the primaries wrote admiringly of him then, speculating about the deep sources of discontent that he had tapped, but grew more critical and skeptical after the convention...
IN A SUMMER of discontent that rivaled a play by Bockett or a film by Fellini with its juxtaposition of tragedy and force, the Cambridge City Council has finally disposed of the City Manager issue by deciding to do nothing at all.
Meany continues to take occasional swipes at Nixon, but his hatred of McGovern and what he stands for in American politics is too visceral to be overcome. At 78, Meany is set in his ways, but he also has his ear to the ground. He detects discontent with McGovern among...
Granted, you don't have the South, even temporality, without reservations. There is an understood loyalty to the region and its people, and a leave of absence implies discontent to some degree.