Word: resentence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worse calamity is to be averted. ... If this situation is not wisely handled it might lead to such revolutionary or reactionary folly as would bring immense loss and suffering to all classes. . . . Very big social changes are inevitable and rightly due. . . . Christian people . . . have been too ready to resent the application of a Christian critique to their own social standards and practices...
...weren't for all the excitement in the East, Tommy Hart would like being in Connecticut himself. Ever since last year when he and his wife were separated by the order recalling all Navy wives from the Far East-an order that Navy men resent more every day-Mrs. Hart has been busy raising cows in Sharon, Conn., on a farm that has been in her family for generations. Like most sailors, the Admiral has a yen for farming, would like to put his wife's dairy on a "businesslike basis." When they were first separated, Mrs. Hart...
...HARLAN COUNTY COAL OPERATORS ASSOCIATION. IT DOES NOT AND NEVER HAS HIRED THUGS OR GOONS, OR "FOUGHT TO KEEP WAGES DOWN." ITS EMPLOYES ARE REPRESENTED NOT BY CIO'S UNITED MINE WORKERS BUT AFL PROGRESSIVE MINE WORKERS WHO HAVE TWICE DEFEATED UMW IN NLRB ELECTIONS. WE DEEPLY RESENT YOUR IMPUTATION OF ANTI-UNION ACTIVITY TO THIS COMPANY. IN HARLAN COUNTY, AS ELSEWHERE, OUR ONLY INTEREST IN UNION OR GANIZING EFFORTS IS TO LEARN THROUGH LABOR BOARD ELECTIONS WHAT UNION THE EMPLOYES WANT TO REPRESENT THEM...
Warned that Harvard undergraduates may resent his forthcoming impersonation, the ex-pug replied: "If dat is a insult to dose gents ... let 'em sulk. I'm gettin' a tousan' a week, and what are they gettin...
...Professor Kittredge legends recounted in your Aug. 4 issue are orthodox and generally credited. But I am sure that the great teacher would resent having some of them stand without modification in your widely read columns. ... I once heard him deny publicly at Dartmouth the retort, "Who would examine me?" when asked why he had not taken the Ph.D. degree. "That would have been nonsense!" he exclaimed, and added humorously, "I don't think I could have passed an examination for that degree." About the Oxfordian who told him that the only man who could answer an obscure question...