Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME [May 6], in an article concerning the recently emasculated OPA bill . . . stated: "The voice of Reuben, slightly hysterical as it was, had its effect." I resent your allegation that the average American citizen is a Rube and that he is hysterical...
...Always go easy on reproducing oratorical violence-even though some diplomats resent it. Last year in Berlin, a British delegate branded a colleague's statement as a "damn lie." Mathieu rendered this in French as: "The honorable gentleman has not told the facts in a manner which checks with the information which I myself have on those facts." The Britisher insisted that all he had said was: "That is a damn...
...resent also your uncomic use of spaghetti to rhyme with Szigeti. I don't care if it does rhyme, or even if there was no other word to use. It is an insult to one of the finest artists of our times...
...Thomas, who, with little positive backing of his own among auto workers, is also favorably regarded by C.I.O. President Phil Murray. Thomas has been kept in office up to now largely by the negative votes of those, including the Addes group, who either fear Reuther's ambitions or resent his vindictiveness...
When they landed, many of the brides had more worries. Would America be different? Will American women resent...