Word: resent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was not their only complaint. Union leaders resent Johnson's attempts to impose wage-price guidelines, which they regard as discriminatory. Labor was irked last year when the President allowed Congress to shelve the minimum-wage bill, and is now disappointed by the Administration's proposal to set a minimum wage of $1.60 an hour by 1968 rather than the $1.75 that it has requested...
Taylor stated Thursday that "resent American strategy is the best that has been suggested and that it is important to adhere...
Superficial Irritant. A few militant Negroes resent any attempt to alter their speech habits. Negro Writer Le-Roi Jones asks: "What's wrong with our black tongue now?" Philadelphia N.A.A.C.P. Leader Cecil B. Moore argues that "my dialect never hurt me-and no one tries to change the Irish, Italians or French who have dialects." Author Langston Hughes backhandedly praises the "old shoe" approach as "bordering on the poetic...
...United States must also be prepared to accept a possible Communist victory at the polls -- and the establishment of a unified Vietnam under the Communists -- and in that eventuality to work with them toward independence from Peking. The Vietnamese still resent their centuries of subjugation to the Chinese; as Senator Fulbright suggests, there is a good possibility that the United States can help build the stage on which Ho Chi Minh plays Tito to Mao Tse Tung's Stalin...
...psychotherapist, I resent your distorted article on homosexuality [Jan. 21]. Though you correctly quote a few experts, it is dreadful of you to sneer, and foolish to elaborate Catholic and Talmudic trash about an issue that is more rightfully a problem of psychological understanding than moral dogma...