Word: resented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hence, each side must meet the other halfway, casting aside any thought of recrimination. It is easy for the U.S. to resent its Western European allies for their uncertainties, to reproach them for not sharing its own view of the future of the Western world, to ask them to harmonize their essential interests with its trade policy. That is always easy, sometimes justified, but in any case insufficient. Such complaints seem all the more futile in that they place Western European countries in a position to ask the U.S. to clarify its own standpoint...
...between Christian churches. Most evangelists describe their work as spreading the gospel or "telling the good news," as the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, head of the United Ministry here and the chairman of the ad hoc committee which invited Graham to Harvard, explains Graham himself says he used to resent being called an evangelist until he learned that the word can mean "another...
...money and equipment to build lights for the county's baseball field and coal executives and politicians alike make flowery speeches about "working together to make this county a better place to live." Because of this visible support and all the money they pay in wages the coal companies resent charges that they are not doing enough to help the county. Michael H. Vallez. Mapco's vice president in charge of all the Martin county Tiki mines, says a recent land study charging the large companies of hurting the region by taking money out of the county was biased...
...from New Orleans in Biloxi, Miss., making him the first black on record to move to Biloxi for peace of mind. First-black distinctions are not what move him, however. When someone asked how it felt to be the first black coach in the Final Four, Thompson snorted: "I resent the hell out of that question. It implies I am the first black to be accomplished enough and intelligent enough to get here...
...Arthur Hiller of his highly sanitized love scenes: "We weren't trying to say this is how gays make love. This is terribly new for most of the country, so you must lead them into it gently." As for Personal Best, Writer-Director Robert Towne has come to resent his film's identification as a gay tract. "The name of the movie is not 'Personal Fruit.' There are two minutes of lovemaking and an hour of competition in it, and as far as I know, sex between any genders has not yet qualified as an Olympic...