Word: resenters
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...attacks against him grew in intensity and viciousness, the old Chief Justice's health steadily declined. He was conscious of the gloating watchfulness and sensitive to hostility, which is perhaps why, even near the end, he did not seem to fear or resent death. Indeed, Taney seemed to be more concerned with the fact that the war was interfering with his supply of Cuban Principes...
...bull in a ring. Sometimes he goes one way, and I try to follow him, and then he goes the other way. Cagey, amorphous personalities make me unhappy." Many Catholic progressives are now convinced that Paul has deliberately sided all along with the conservative Curia, and they openly resent it. Austrian Historian Friedrich Heer fumes at "this small, narrow-minded, petit bourgeois person." A Catholic layman from Colorado complains: "He makes grand gestures and then does nothing to obtain the goal." Argues Edward Keating, editor of the rambunctiously liberal California monthly Ramparts: "He is a Curialist, and thus part...
...freedom, and black for the people. "And what holds it up?" asks a cynical European. "A white flagpole." Such remarks are typical of many of Zambia's 77,000 whites, on whom the country depends to keep its copper mines humming and its commerce thriving. Some still resent a black government in a land so long under white rule. Kaunda shrugs off the attitude. Far from wanting to drive the whites out of Zambia, he is actively encouraging more to come...
...fast from cliche to cliche that you have barely enough time to recover from one proverb before bang comes the next. "Baby," says agent Arthur Landau to his fledgling actress Jean as he extracts one dollar from her first day's pay, "one day you're going to resent that ten per cent." And sure enough, about one hour later, she does...
Many business and government leaders today fear that Australia's beneficent role as a major Asian power could be seriously diminished if other democratic nations such as Japan-which has now replaced Britain as Australia's biggest trading partner-come to resent the all-white continent as a racist preserve-which it is not. Declares Melbourne Mining Tycoon Sir Maurice Mawby: "We must live by geography today, not history...