Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consider it a most unfortunate article. I was nonplused by the stupidity of what you had to say about my "feminine look for the small rounded figure." I resent this ... It may interest you to know that my clothes are sized from 10 to 18 usually, and much of the time to size 20, and that a great majority of the women who buy my clothes are medium height or tall. But I do not cater to the small or rounded figure...
Scott McLeod was "amazed and astonished" by Corsi's testimony. Back on the witness stand, he told the subcommittee: "I had no intimation of any personal ill will while Mr. Corsi was in the department. I resent the vituperative appellation of 'security gang.' It's not a gang; it is the Eisenhower team. I believe in it. and that...
...Governor Stoughton seemed to resent this affront. Although his spirit remained quite for some years, it had an insidious effect on the occupants of the new hall. The two historians Francis Parkman and William Hickling Prescott both later went blind, and Richard Henry Dana had to go off to sea to recover his eyesight. Even the burbling Oliver Wendell Holmes was daunted during his year of residence, managing to mutter only, "I am as cross as a wild-cat sometimes." Stoughton remained gloomy for years, inwardly boiling at the more light-hearted Hollis, where the Hasty Pudding Club...
...Confirmed New York Accountant Joseph Campbell, former atomic energy commissioner, as U.S. Comptroller General by voice vote (in which a few loud nays were heard from Democrats who resent Campbell's approval of the Dixon-Yates contract...
...ordinarily amiable English bulldog who has been carrying TIME clenched be tween my teeth each week to my master, I resent the human reporting in regard to the sterling qualities of my breed in your Feb. 28 issue. "Disobedient," "broods," "lazy," "never plays!"-Poppycock! At my present age of six years I will . . outpull any team of horses-in proportion to my weight. As for not playing, my master says I wear out toys more quickly than any other dog . . . . If by "unsociable" you refer to a certain digestive peculiarity that results in a sort of double-barreled halitosis...