Word: resentful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government does not want the six counties mixed up with a war. Last week the British Government announced the beginnings of conscription (see p. 20). Promptly Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, announced that Northern Ireland was a "most loyal part of the United Kingdom and would deeply resent any suggestion that she should not be included in the military training bill...
Recalling your issue of March 13, under "Capitol Prayers," on p. 40, you hinted that Shera was a funny name, which I resent, for while Shera is not an ordinary name, it is unusal, and different. My greatgrandfather was named James Shera and I have a freind named Mrs. Montgomery, and I think they are both nice names. I am 11 yrs. old I am in junior high school, and I like to read TIME because I like it very much...
Many thousands of us, your readers, are over 83 and resent the suggestion that we are dead or better dead. . . . Beginning tomorrow, I intend to picket TIME with a board saying "TIME is Unfair to Octogenarians...
...play) was preaching away from Nazareth. Theme of the play is Jesus' own saying: "A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house." Only Mary (glowingly played by Judith Anderson) has faith in Jesus: His brothers resent Him as a fanatic who hurts their business, their marriage prospects, and the family name...
...little wonder then that townspeople are likely to resent the criticism of their governments by gownpeople. True, college faculty members are not guilty of the same outrages students have perpetrated in the past. But the impolitic remarks and methods that professors are prone to use cause the same type of resentment. Town concludes that gown does not take its problems seriously enough; students make open sport of local government and the faculty is too inept in politics to prove it does not wish to experiment with the municipality as a guinea...