Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States, and hence is most unwilling to make the shipment, in spite of American pressure. Thus, by urging the French to this distasteful action, the State Department is irritating not only the Arabs, but also the French, who already are at wit's end politically and resent oppressive American interference...
...ground rules, Governor Frank John Lausche of Ohio ought to be the worst kind of political liability. At 60 he is an unfraternal Democrat who often talks and acts like a Republican. He is the implacable enemy of lobbies and pressure groups of all kinds. Big-shot Republicans resent him; organization Democrats detest him; labor leaders denounce him as the foe of the workingman. His immigrant parentage arouses the suspicion of Mayflowering Americans. Protestants are skeptical of his Roman Catholic raising; devout Catholics deplore the fact that he is, in effect, excommunicated for marrying outside the Catholic Church. Even...
...resent the distorted picture TIME is giving to millions of Americans. One would think that 45 million Arabs cower under the truculence of 1.5 million Jews, who, for some unknown reason, wish to beat the Middle East to its knees. If TIME is anti-Israel, let it say so openly. This intellectual pussyfooting is not what I would call courageous journalism...
...record of recent elections indicates that the farmer is generally eager to sell his vote to the highest bidder, and that city people are too indifferent (or benumbed) to resent this legalized corruption, even when the bribe is lifted right out of their own pockets...
...clock service, the second minister, who had been sent by Bishop De Wolfe, retreated when it became apparent that most of the congregation was following the Rev. Mr. Melish's conduct of the service. The reason that many parishioners back Melish is that they resent the bishop's actions as "High Church" interference...