Word: resenter
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Said a New Delhi newspaper: "You can belabor an elephant and he will not resent it, but a small irritant under one toenail may drive...
Captain Mildred McAfee, brisk, athletic, curly-haired head of the WAVES, ardent feminist, suggested that since volunteer lady hostesses "resent" having WAVES, WACs, SPARs and women marines at their servicemen's parties, husbands of hostesses ought to get together and entertain servicewomen. One of her WAVES had told her about one such party, "held in somebody's back yard because they had a swimming pool-it was not an organized thing." Everyone had a good time despite the fact some of the men were old enough to be the girls' fathers...
...forgotten Tory once remarked in defense of his favorite magazine: "British humor is not to be laughed at." Punch's readers still resent any newfangled notions in their magazine, like it to keep a little behind the times. It still appears (except for its semiannual specials, the Summer Number and the Almanack) in the cover drawn in 1849 by Richard Doyle. Nevertheless Punch has made some perceptible changes in late years. Almost all of its cartoons now bear the modern single-line caption, and it has sponsored several brilliant new cartooning talents...
...bound to bring a cutthroat international price war in the competition for markets.* Commenting on the new cotton plan, the National City Bank of New York said: ''Selling abroad at prices below the domestic market is 'dumping,' a policy Which other producing countries may resent. The cotton subsidy . . . notifies foreign producers that we are not interested in supporting the world price any longer, but in keeping the domestic price above...
Quick to honor a hero, quick to resent a slur are the rangy sons of the Lone Star State. Last week, quickened by both these emotional spurs, hot-hearted Texans rallied in droves to the banner of scholarly, pious Homer Price Rainey, president since 1939 of the sprawling University of Texas at Austin. Balding, unprepossessing Dr. Rainey, who worked his way through school and college to become one of the leading U.S. educators, was locked in battle with the Texas Board of Regents...