Word: resentatives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried not to resent the whole thing, like a good soldier. After all, he thought, what could you expect with a military man running the whole set-up? It was probably the efficient method. And perhaps this was the way to handle veterans; hit 'em with a crisp military tone and they'll comply before the daze wears off. "You can't treat these guys too soft," he could imagine one Harvard Medical Officer sneering. "They're used to the rough stuff...
...Today, as a Hearst drawing card and a radio chatterer on the side, he earns $12,000 a year. He has traveled 350,000 miles to cover sports events. He has bombarded crooked sports promoters with thousands of yards of angry copy. His staffers resent the way he picks their brains for squibs for his column, taking their brightest gossip, but they have to admire the way the boss's column pulls in the fan mail...
...well aware of the hazards. If John Lewis went to jail, all organized labor might strike in sympathy. Said A.F.L. President William Green, a usually mild man: "The workers of the nation resent this action on the part of the Government. . . . All American labor unites with the mine workers in condemning this reversion to the archaic philosophy of government by injunction." A general strike was a possibility also if the injunction was retained. In either event, the mines would stay closed...
...more than he bargained for. After a three-day battle the right-wingers emerged with a resolution stating that the committee members "resent and reject efforts of the Communist Party or other political parties and their adherents to interfere in the affairs of the C.I.O. This convention serves notice that we will not tolerate such interference...
...Foot, Laborite M.P., said that "American political ideology really is about 30 years behind Europe," saw a "whirlwind brewing on the other side of the Atlantic." The Conservative Daily Mail chided the embittered critics: "Such comment is as impertinent as it is stupid. The Americans have every ground for resenting it, in the same way that we resent uninformed American criticisms of our own actions. . . . The American people have exercised their democratic privilege of voting for the party that pleases them...