Word: resentful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sincere change of heart in the attitude of the German people, and I am happy to be able to report that there is, "A growing hate, especially for the United States" is quite out of the question, and apart from the fact that the occupation is probably resented--name any country that would not resent an occupation and the necessary shortcomings in the wake of it-but the German people realize the necessity to cooperate with the western world that, after all, represents the patterns of occidental culture of which we all are in some way or another an integral...
...Crimson Key has had valid reason to resent the freshman Jubilee, for it has preceded the Key's All-College Weekend by only a week, and has tended to draw freshmen away from the larger festivities...
...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...