Word: resentfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard today" concerning Radcliffe. What the editorial failed to recognize is that this "philosophy" is wholly natural in view of the stranger phenomenon of joint education. While the Corporation chooses fitting titles, the student attends what is really Harvard-Radcliffe, a college for men and women. Naturally, many students resent this reality, especially those who thought they applied to a men's (or women's) college. Naturally, they attempt to cling to the remains of their illusion...
...main trouble, according to Coolidge, comes from the whistle that he and Clark use to announce their arrival. "We know the fellows resent having their studying interrupted by a blast on that whistle," he said, "but we need something loud enough to reach the top floors of buildings like Matthews...
...some of the speeches still ring with the old rhetoric and the masterful irony, e.g., the 1944 defense of Fala: "I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog." And in the more formal addresses there are still passages that read as impressively as they sounded when they were first delivered: "The life of a man is threescore years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a Nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live...
...manpower, Yugoslav industry is now producing more expensively than the same production would cost to import. The overall effort is based on a staggering program of self-sacrifice by the Yugoslav people. Like the Russian people, they were not consulted about the desirability of making the sacrifice. Many Yugoslavs resent it. Although some new factories, schools and offices have been built, what the average worker really sees ahead is a life of slavery for which he is not even beginning to receive compensation in the form of consumer goods...
...Liberals and common people all over the world will always resent your ignoring of the true Man of the Half-Century-Franklin D. Roosevelt...