Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expenditure of $200,000,000--the sum necessary to complete the canal. This means that the executive can on his own authority make any appropriations whatsoever, if he can get his hands on a small retaining fee. Jealous of his new money authority, he seems inclined to resent having to share it with Congress. It is hard to interpret otherwise his declaration that seed-bill loans made by him require no additional revenues, but loans made by Congress must be backed up by new taxes. As long as we have a lily-livered Senate and a foolish, and autocratic President...
...Heidelberg University is not the Nazi government; it is older than a hundred Nazi governments. Anyone who has travelled in Germany and talked with students, especially those of Heidelberg, knows that the Universities strongly resent the violations of their age-old privileges and liberties...
...corner of his mouth, "to say that any man who would asperse the integrity and veracity of Woodrow Wilson is a coward, if it were permissible to say that his charge is not only malicious but positively mendacious, that I would be glad to say. ... I resent it ... as an infamous libel...
...ordination service, and any minister (man or woman) who is properly dressed wears black in the pulpit, not blue and gold. And the most of us do not take our Bibles in swimming with us. I was ordained deacon in September 1931 and elder in September 1933. I resent publicity stunts of any kind in the ministry...
...whistling, served up the incipient mutiny of British tars in the Mediterranean to the British public as one reason for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's consenting to dismemberment of Ethiopia. "Augur" pictured the disgruntled salts "cooped up in the narrow quarters of ships of all descriptions beginning to resent the tension of inactivity they are under without visible cause. They have been deprived not only of leave to go home but also of shore leave in the ports where they are now stationed. This has been particularly necessary at Alexandria, Egypt, where the population is far from friendly...