Word: resentatives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal friend of King Boris, I lament the loss of Wild Bill's wallet, but I resent the aspersion cast on the honor of my poor but honest countrymen...
...Congress for power to give the British all the munitions they need, whether they can pay for them or not (see p. 15). But as a matter of practical policy his Government was meanwhile being more hardheaded. To the accompaniment of furious harumphs from some Britons, who tend to resent the war because it is taking their property away, Treasury officials held firmly to one policy: no gifts or loans of munitions until all British assets here are spent...
...Freshmen were most productive of dark horses, but Leverett House achieved the largest total for any one of the unlisted candidates, giving 10 votes to Roger W. Babson as a hangover from the resent whirlwind ballot-battle of Prohibitionist. Henry H. Morgan '41 Babson's total in the entire University...
...teachers are quick to resent interference with their political rights, like to play politics, sometimes run for elective offices. This fall many a teacher, like many another citizen, has exercised his time-honored right to take the stump. Last week a University of California legal officer threw a scare into such teachers with an opinion that if they were paid in part from Federal funds, the Hatch Act barred them from politics...
...part it is a realistic and cynical point of view. Students feel that we are repeating the steps this country followed in 1915-17, and are being drawn into another futile war to make the world safe for democracy. And they resent appeals to their altruism because they know that men can fight altruistically in bad wars as well as good ones...