Word: resenter
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...economy. Settling the airline strikes over the third man in the cockpit, for example, would prove that even the knottiest problems of automation, featherbedding and union jurisdiction can be solved reasonably. Whether this be called intervention or public service is a matter for dispute. But not all businessmen resent having Goldberg in the act. Said Everett Goulard, Pan Am's vice president for industrial relations: "We welcomed the help of the Government and Goldberg in this proceeding. Goldberg was most helpful...
...comes powerfully alive when it reaches the love-death climax of a wedding night. The groom-to-be. Luciano, settles in a small, primitive town, picks a local beauty to marry. He has no trouble bribing her parents to let her go, but the rest of the townspeople fiercely resent an outsider taking one of their girls. They regard him with a "hatred steaming with hot blood and entrails." On his wedding day, he tries to appease the townspeople with a band he has hired, fireworks and 120 gallons of wine. But no sooner has he retired for the night...
...small businessman, I resent being called an s.o.b., and resent the multimillionaire Kennedy family's seeming aversion to anyone else's making a few bucks...
...believe that only evil can come of them. But surely some good is being done: penniless men are finding work. However foully Northern cities treat their Negro population, they still offer them a world of opportunity the South cannot match. And while jobless Negroes in the North will resent the jobs so ostentatiously offered the newcomers from New Orleans, most of the jobs given them so far have been positions which Northern Negroes would not have been permitted to fill. The public stir attending the migrants helps them break into Northern occupations and places which have, up to now, excluded...
...Volpe talks as if he's the only decent man in Massachusetts politics," McLaughlin continued, "Well, he isn't. I resent the inference that everyone who is a Democrat is dishonest...