Word: resentful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satisfied. He doubted that Gold water could "consistently, conscientiously and in good faith use the powers and prestige" of the presidency to carry out the civil rights law. Goldwater flushed, but held his temper. "When you use that argument," he said, "you are questioning my honesty, and I should resent it but I won't." Parker insisted that he was doing no such thing. Said Goldwater: "Well, you are, sir. I will uphold that law because it is the voice of the majority. And if I'm your President, I will do something about this in more ways...
...handed his resignation to President Antonio Segni, who accepted conditionally but asked Moro and his Cabinet to remain in office until a new government could be formed. It may take some doing, since Moro has long been under fire from right-wing members of his Christian Democratic Party, who resent the "opening to the left" through which Moro brought the Socialists into the government. Socialist Nenni has been under equally sharp fire from leftists who charge that he has given in to Moro time after time on what were fundamental Socialist demands...
...lives in the South, as one who has never been ashamed of being a Southerner, and as one who believes that the people of the South are as good citizens as people anywhere else in the country, I resent this political foray." He also had a word of warning for Dirksen. "Unless I am badly fooled," said Russell, "he has killed off a rapidly growing Republican Party in the South, at least so far as his party's prospects in the presidential campaign are concerned...
...ranging from scorpions to flowering steamboats, dissolve and collapse as the Nile laps among them. Of 43 villages, 33 have already been evacuated, their citizens relocated in stone-and-cement villages replete with grocery markets and food-processing plants, at Kom Ombo, 40 miles north of Aswan. Many Nubians resent the move. Their culture, which survived waves of invaders from the Egyptians to the Turks, seems doomed to certain dilution in the new settlements. But as one Egyptian said: "What is left to us but to drown the past in order to save the future...
...resent hearing it called "McNamara's war"? At his Pentagon press conference last week, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara soberly reminded everyone that it was South Viet Nam's and the U.S. Government's war. But he added that he didn't really mind...