Word: resenter
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...resent being smeared by your magazine because I am opposed to Communism...
...Africans also resent the fact that many U.S. Negroes look on them as curiosities straight from the African jungle. Said Sunday Nwokorie, a Nigerian studying at Atlanta University: "When I came here, Negro students asked me how many wives I had. Was I a village chief? Did I have snakes in my room? I found these questions were not intended to offend me. It was merely ignorance," Added Andrew Makhene of South Africa, another student at Atlanta University: "I have met several white college students in the South, and they never ask me such silly questions...
Army Farms. The supple new line may have been hurried along by unrest in the Red army. The peasant rank and file was naturally bitter at the suffering of its families in the communes. Red army officers resent the use of their men as a labor force. Because of army protests in 1959, Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai was replaced by more pliable Marshal Lin Piao, who instituted a new and supposedly chastening system of sending officers into the ranks for one month each year to wear "ordinary soldiers' uniforms and to eat, live, drill, labor and play together...
...daughter who as she approaches her 30th year, finds herself unmarried; still pretty in a dim way but getting a bit odd and starchy; prone to nervous flutters of the heart; apt to sleep ill of nights; liable to warble La Golondrina at charity bazaars; beginning to resent her slavery to a kleptomaniac mother (Una Merkel) who is glad to be mad; beginning to be desperate...
...more common on Madison Avenue than the critics are the admen who testily resent inside or outside criticism of their trade. "The eggheads dislike businessmen, the eggheads dislike advertising," snorts Rosser Reeves, chairman of hard-sell Ted Bates & Co. Says Walter Guild, president of San Francisco's Guild, Bascom & Bonfigli, the ad agency for the Kennedy election campaign: "If Toynbee wants to make his own toothpaste and his wife wants to sew her own brassières. O.K. He's just using advertising as a focal point to criticize our entire economic system...