Word: resented
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...during lunch in the snack room, four older workers were sitting around a table discussing the growth of the office. "Even the students resent becoming numbers now," one said. Another, who has worked here 14 years, added, "It used to be more like a family, the boss would come out and say hi to everyone." A third worker said that she had never seen her boss, Joe Billy Wyatt. "He runs in and out with a briefcase," the first employee said. The fourteen-year veteran added, "He's a handsome man." "Why didn't you tell me," barked the employee...
...especially in Africa, the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America on an equal basis. We contend that the history of black people goes back several thousands of years and that even the experience of the black people in the United States should be studied in that context. We resent being regarded as a people without roots whose worthwhile existence and experience do not extend beyond the period of slavery and colonialism, going back only four hundred years...
...strongly resent your description of Senator Henry Jackson as "lackluster" I March 15] and noncharismatic. What do you want, an entertainer or a President? Good grief, why are Americans so hooked on show...
Nordin said that many students resent what they see as "a fiat statement from the faculty regarding what they can and cannot do with the medical education...
Explaining this phenomenon, one student says: "We know what the real stuff is like, and we resent what they present to us in disguise." Happily for most, three short months will find them back' in their homeland, where they will be able to have their cake...