Word: resented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus the trial, now in its fourth week, is being closely monitored by Mexican Americans. Every day they pack the courtroom's ten benches. Others march outside, carrying signs reading PROSECUTION, DO YOUR JOB and JUSTICE FOR ALL. Mexican Americans resent the fact that the jury again is all white and criticize the Government attorneys for not better preparing the three aliens for the witness stand. Meanwhile, the Hanigan brothers sit impassively in court, scribbling endless notes as they listen to testimony. Their defense is simple: they contend that they were elsewhere when the aliens were tortured. If convicted...
With unblinking candor, Martha Lear records every agony, every tantrum, every embarrassment experienced by a man whose body has begun the process of betrayal. No one is spared, least of all the author. She recalls her resentment of the illness that disables both her husband and her marriage: "I ache for him but I resent him as well, this sick, sunken man ... The intensity of the anger that hovers here, beneath what I take to be love, is frightening. I understand the wretched banality of such an anger as this . . . yet it shames and appalls...
Even among fellow Slavs there are sharp tensions. Russians tend to regard Ukrainians as ne'er-do-well country cousins, an attitude that Ukrainians, with their distinct cultural traditions and strong ethnic pride, resent and resist. Out of deference to their numbers?42 million, the second largest nationality?the Soviet leadership has sought to create a limited partnership with the Ukrainians. They are the only non-Russians to have significant representation in the central elite...
Understandably, many black leaders deeply resent these political shifts. M. Carl Holman, president of the National Urban Coalition, expresses that sentiment in excessive terms. Says he of the nation's black communities: "There are raw wounds out there and a blind officialdom keeps flicking those wounds with a whip as if to see what will happen...
Despite workers' approval of the settlements, many employees still resent what they perceive as Harvard's condescending mindset toward its support services "They say workers are dispensable. They say they could do outside contracting at a cheaper rate. They say they could bust the union by bringing in part-timers. How are we supposed to feel secure with high inflation?" one Harvard shop steward says, indicating that the University's impersonal approach to workers alienates and frightens a good number...