Word: resented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some businessmen resent his interference, fear and respect prevent outcries. The sound of the name Dave Beck still touches the nerve centers of thousands with the impact of a fist on bone. But the great majority of employers think he is wonderful and applaud like happy seals when he speaks at the Chamber of Commerce...
I.I.I., whose membership now includes 87 companies, has no way of measuring results. But unions, which resent the N.A.M. type of salesmanship, have yet to criticize I.I.I. And, since I.I.I.'s program got started, President Sampson has noticed that his own employees work harder. Says he: "They know that in a sense it's their business, not only the business of a fat guy in the front office...
...should have liked to see Oliver Twist; and I bitterly resent it that pressure groups should have successfully committed a breach of the democratic process in depriving me and many millions of others of our right to see that film...
...Braves' longest losing streak has been four games. "When we lose," says Southworth, "we never talk baseball. I don't reprimand the boys for their mistakes after a game. I let a man sleep on it and talk to him next day. He doesn't resent it that way. There's no browbeating on my team. Actually, I haven't any reason to think that there's a fellow on the Braves who dislikes...
...resent the satires on British mores of such writers as Max Beerbohm, "Saki," and Evelyn Waugh, but he will concede humor to the contrariness of inanimate objects-such as the collar-button under the bureau-preferably someone else's collar-button. He dislikes gloomy foreign philosophies such as Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism, and he likes to see them made fun of, in his fashion. Recently he has been getting what he wants in some spirited exercises in the Spectator's colums...