Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Both are read as much for their ads as for anything else. Both employ squads of bright, elegantly turned-out young fashion scouts, and both try to vary their pictures of blankly beautiful models with portraits of society women. Both are fawned over by publicity-hungry manufacturers. But they resent being taken for twins. Their differences are largely those that set apart two strong-minded women of ruthless, sometimes reckless taste...
...place." The next July 12 Sir Basil recalled: "I recommended people not to employ Roman Catholics, who are 99% disloyal." (Meanwhile, down in Eire, Taoiseach Eamon de Valera was saying: "Ulster's rejection of an all-Ireland union is an outrage which Irishmen throughout the world will resent...
...British resentment directed against America can do no good for either party. If Britain produces the right goods at the right prices the US will buy. But the longer that the British government prevents the present standard of living from rising, merely to save dollar exchange, the longer will billions in potential production be lost and longer will the English people resent the abundance common in this country. English resentment has real roots, but it should be turned towards the British government from whence it originates...
Official quarters resent investigation into Eva's past (she has never been listed in Argentina's Who's Who), but unofficial biographers state that Eva Duarte was born on May 7, 1919, in the tiny village of Los Toldos in Buenos Aires province. Her father, Juan Duarte, was a handsome and susceptible small landowner of nearby Chivilcoy. Her mother was a dark-eyed Basque named Juana Ibarguren, whose charms were sufficient to lure Juan from his wife. The couple set up housekeeping in a tumbledown house with an unkempt yard overrun by chickens. They had five children...
...books appealing to only the "stunted" in intelligence, he insults the vast body of American book-buyers and readers who, by the evidence of their letters to me, have bought and read my books. Your "critic," too, will amuse and please only the few of my personal enemies who resent my "success," and envy me, as does this gentle gentleman...