Word: resentfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than anything else the Turkish forces seemed to resent Kurdish attempts to revive the fez, long ago abolished in Turkey by Dictator Kemal. The Kurds, in the first flush of their revolt, transformed the hats of captured Turkish villagers into "fezzes" by cutting off the brims...
...veteran's point of view, try only to do as much as they can when they have to, make themselves as comfortable as possible betweenwhiles Fellow enlisted men like and admire Bourne, have seen him proved in action, but feel the difference between his class and theirs. Officers resent this, think it wrong for him to be in the ranks. Finally his captain persuades him to put in for a commission. Bourne, having grown into the private soldier's ways of life and feelings about officers, agrees against his will would rather stay a private. He comes through...
...deeply resent this eleventh-hour and unwarranted interference by Washington bureaucracy! I object to Mr. Templeton's unfair interjection into this case. He has no right here! I request the court...
...really cannot take the letter seriously," declared Mr. Forbes, "since it contained nothing that could be actually construed as a threat of violence. I suppose it came from some person of unsound mind who read about the purchase of the painting by the Museum and resented that so much money should be spent on anyone or anything but himself. I merely turned it over to the Harvard police to clear myself of any responsibility in the matter. I do not think that anyone in their right mind could resent the legitimate purchase of a priceless work...
...Lieutenant Miguel Primo de Rivera bustled up to General Queipo de Llano, recently author of an "insulting" letter to the onetime Dictator. Serene, the General sat at a corner table, elegantly sipping deviled coffee (with brandy), secure in the belief that a mere lieutenant would not dare violently to resent the insult of a general...