Word: resentational
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...Nixon-Brooke ticket will not draw even limited support among blacks. The reasons are simple: blacks are thoroughly disgusted with Nixon and his policies. Many blacks resent the fact that Senator Brooke has a white wife, making it impossible for him to identify completely with blacks. We are tired of being second-class citizens, and Senator Brooke, as a black man, would have a second-rate position on the ticket. Nixon is a conservative and Brooke is a liberal; the ticket couldn't run a united campaign...
...labyrinthine is the route to peace in the Middle East that even allies frequently find themselves colliding along the way. Israel is at odds with the U.S., its closest friend and its only real source of weapons. Washington considers Jerusalem intransigent, while Israelis resent U.S. attempts to pressure them into negotiating with the Arabs, most notably by withholding 50 Phantom jet fighters. The quarrel has become so abrasive that Premier Golda Meir flew to Washington last week in an effort to resolve it directly with President Nixon...
...have learned to hate?the rapes, ripoffs, robberies and dope addiction that have turned all too many inner-city schools into blackboard jungles where learning is less important than learning how to survive. Beyond that, whites who have moved to a suburb for the sake of its school system resent the fact that courts they have never seen and judges they did not elect are telling them that their children cannot use those schools...
...other economic and political aides, and he is closing fast on Attorney General John Mitchell, once the Administration's undisputed No. 2 man for domestic affairs. For all his triumphs, however, Connally has formed no close personal friendships with any of the Nixon men. Many of them still resent him?but quietly for the moment. "He's riding too high for them now," says one of the Secretary's friends, adding: "But let him stumble and they'll be all over...
Many doctors have nonreligious reasons for their reluctance to perform abortions. Dr. Robert Hall, associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, believes that some doctors resent laws allowing the woman to decide on abortion because they limit the physician's "godlike role." Many doctors also find the procedure alien to their experience. Hall estimates that before the New York law took effect, the typical specialist performed only one or two therapeutic abortions a year; much of his practice was devoted to assisting a normal delivery...