Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most significant fact about Washington's growing totalitarianism is that it shows the direct effect of the first six months of war on the U.S. people. They no longer begrudge the Government power; they merely resent Government's inefficiency. They resent contradictory estimates of the gasoline and rubber supply, but they accept rationing with good grace...
...beer. Stopped by a small-town constable for passing a red light, a U.S. trooper rudely exclaimed: "I've never seen traffic lights in a cemetery before." Another, asked his opinion of Irish girls, glumly replied: "At home, we bury our dead." The Irish have a tendency to resent such-remarks. When a U.S. technician in a bar grumbled audibly about "having to come over to look after this little island," an incensed Irishman flashed back: "Faith, you don't seem very good at looking after your own little islands...
Calisthenics, which Dorothy Thompson knocked a few days ago, were disapproved by Colonel Whittaker as well, although he made it clear that this is not the Army's opinion. "The men resent these calisthenics more than any other part of Army life, and could get just as much physical benefit from the obstacle course and field exercises that we have at Camp...
...paying his taxes, one Fred Walker of Alford, Lincolnshire, swore at the tax collector. Last week, under a law passed in 1745, Fred Walker was fined. The law holds that persons who resent paying their taxes may be fined one shilling if they are day laborers, two shillings if they are below the rank of gentleman, three to five shillings if they are gentlemen. Fred Walker's fine: two shillings...
...decent Southerner either supports or condones lynching. A steady rise of public opinion has resulted in the number of lynchings dropping to none or one or two a year. But those same decent Southerners rightfully resent this type of interference from outside sources...