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...immediate: 90% of Cartwright's workers admitted that they hadn't been doing their best, and promised faithfully to work harder if their jobs were given back. A few miffed workers, mostly women in the office, took their wounded pride to other employment offices. "We girls naturally resent being told we are inefficient," said the delinquent switchboard operator stiffly. "We will do our jobs until our notice expires, then go. We shall be coldly polite." But the coolness was soon made up for by a gush of warm good wishes from other harassed businessmen applauding Cartwright...
Setback. Now his head was over the parapet, and now the snipers had something to shoot at. Even in Russia, seniors, pushed aside, resent young upstarts. Molotov, for one, could bear him a grudge because Malenkov exposed Mrs. Molotov's inefficiency. She lost her job first as head of the Cosmetics Trust, then as head of the Fish Industry. Kaganovich, a ranking Politburocrat and a Jew, could resent Malenkov's ill-concealed antiSemitism. But Malenkov, unlike Judy Holliday (see CINEMA), was not born yester day: he cultivated one mighty friend in the Politburo, Lavrenty Beria, head...
...towns had caused them to be selected for air attack. The warnings had been designed by Mark Clark's psychological warfare branch. It was certain that the Communist authorities would make every effort to keep people from trickling out of the target areas, and that the people would resent it. In World War II, similar warnings against the Japanese wrought havoc on Japanese morale...
...story on The Younger Generation (TIME, Nov. 5), the expression that most young people seemed to resent (often while grudgingly admitting its accuracy) was "silent generation...
...Leader. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang resent the notion that they are living in exile. Taipei, they insist, is simply the provisional capital of China, just as Chungking was during World War II. Although Chiang's vast domain has shrunk to a mere 14,000 square miles, his icy dignity has, if anything, increased. Nobody is now, or ever was, on back-slapping terms with Chiang. At 65, he lives a Spartan life, eats sparingly, and neither drinks nor smokes...