Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ballots can be counted. In the meantime, Senator John McClellan confirmed that his Labor Rackets Committee has been taking a look at A.G.V.A. For the moment, Crusader Singleton seemed to have the last word. Said she about her opponents: "I have a national reputation as a housekeeper, but I resent having to clean out their kind...
...things do not happen that way in Ceylon. Constitutionally, the government need not resign unless it loses a vote on the budget-which does not come up until August. Besides, Bandaranaike quickly patched up a new alliance with Parliament's three Communists and 14 Trotskyites, who resent Gunawardena's energetic bid for personal publicity and power. Trading on the jealousies that divide Ceylon's varied Marxists, Bandaranaike hopes to serve out his term till 1961, and seems secure for perhaps six months...
...state-owned ENI oil and gas monopoly from a stagnant relic of fascism into the nation's most powerful business enterprise, a sprawling empire that also makes soap and margarine and manufactures iron and steel. But Mattei has many enemies who dislike his contempt for private enterprise, resent his roughshod methods, and fear the considerable political power he wields as ENI's boss...
...Many commuters suffer from an inferiority complex . . . and show it," wrote one, and another snapped out: "I gather that as a member of Dudley I belong to an underprivileged group of some sort." A third non-resident observed that "I haven't come up against scorn; what I do resent is the automatic pity I get for being a commuter...
...Wolves resent people, too, occasionally eating them down to their boots. Result: U.S. wolves have been all but exterminated by resentful U.S. people. But Biologist Fredine reports that a study being conducted on Lake Superior's Isle Royale by the Park Service and Purdue University shows that wolves serve a useful purpose in the balance of nature...