Word: resenter
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...when he means leave, calls the floor "the deck," tells you to "bear a hand" instead of hurry up, describes things as "squared away" when they are in order. From 5 a.m. reveille to 9 p.m. taps, he takes orders and gets little thanks. He learns not to resent the peremptory nature of commands, comes to see that brusqueness and military efficiency go together...
...know that, at times, I am stubborn and refuse to listen to reason, that I am impertinent, and that I deliberately disobey simply because I resent the authority which imposes the rules, regulations, and minor penalties upon me. However, there must be other effective means of punishment than making me down my pants and cross the parental knee. After all, a 15-year-old girl is too old to spank...
...same time Harvard meetings are notoriously one-sided; "Discussion" is often a synonym for heckling. On whatever viewpoint, a speaker at such a meeting is usually as unequivocal as a Nazi ballot and we often resent the missionary zeal which that implies. Many issues of the greatest importance, such as problems of race and labor, and plans for a post war international order, we must work out on a slow and logical basis. I refuse to choose between Organizations with a Cause, and a non-partisan Union. We vitally need both. Hugh Barhour...
...personal friend of King Boris, I lament the loss of Wild Bill's wallet, but I resent the aspersion cast on the honor of my poor but honest countrymen...
...Congress for power to give the British all the munitions they need, whether they can pay for them or not (see p. 15). But as a matter of practical policy his Government was meanwhile being more hardheaded. To the accompaniment of furious harumphs from some Britons, who tend to resent the war because it is taking their property away, Treasury officials held firmly to one policy: no gifts or loans of munitions until all British assets here are spent...