Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diapers Must Go On. A steady campaign against industrial nurseries is carried on by most U.S. welfare workers and by Government agencies. They resent the widespread notion that women who stay home to care for children are slackers. "Education is a lifelong affair, but, especially for the very young, that does not mean scrapping a mother's care," says Acting Secretary Edna M. Geissler of the Child Care Section of New York City's Welfare Council. "I wish we could convince mothers of youngsters that their job at home is as patriotic as any in a factory...
...Arabs have faith in the justice of the United Nations' cause. The United Nations are fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese because they resent tyranny, oppression, intolerance, regimentation, imperialism, and because they want the common folk to have freedom in all respects. But the United Nations are obviously not fighting this war to perpetuate . . . the same inequalities in conduct, the same deprivation of liberties, the same roughshod denial of freedom that stigmatize the dictatorships. . . . They must seek a broad interpretation of the role of the smaller nations that want to develop their own destinies and to rule their...
Real American citizens endorse and encourage that courageous band of Senators in their filibuster fight to save our Republican form of Government, and bitterly resent such traitors to Democracy as Senators Barkley, Pepper, and their Communistic colleagues. They are the real impeders...
...greatest ammunition is The Flag-and if he is to wave the Stars & Stripes before the voters this year he must do it in such a way that the citizenry will not resent the maneuver as capitalizing on their patriotism. As a man of conscience he cannot use the war to win an election; as a statesman, he might still have to in order to retain effective working control of the House...
...tough old chief petty officer" with 22 years service behind him, he knew precisely what he meant to do with that raft. "I was determined to sail it if I could. And I maintain that I did sail it. I worked like the devil to sail it, and I resent anyone's saying we 'drifted.' " Nor did he ever doubt who was boss. "Naturally I was in command. I took an occasion to remind the boys that I, as captain, held absolute authority." When he tried to teach them navigation, he was not sorry that their...