Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning, joking and relaxed, they met in the Roney Plaza's rose-carpeted Ocean Lounge. Reuther heard C.I.O. Secretary Carey reading aloud a Miami Herald report on the "labor bosses," and exclaimed smilingly: "I resent that. Why don't they say 'Trade Union Statesmen Gather in Miami'?" Meany. a cigar clamped in his teeth, sat at the piano and ripped off jazz melodies. The C.I.O.'s Carey put on a shirt printed with the labels of all A.F.L. unions. By noon the last comma was in place, and the full committee of 20 A.F.L...
...feel that only the immature student would resent guidance that does nothing if not allow him more free time to develop his independent interests. Newell Bryan, Robecca Faxon, Nelia Gray, Anne Kliby, and Sue Lawton...
...French people resent foreign meddling in their own affairs ... As for the argument that France is carelessly surrendering large hunks of territory . . . to the Communists, the French can ask: Who delivered Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, part of Germany and of Korea, and China . . . to the Communists...
...percent system has not come without adjustments and complaints. In particular, the more exclusive clubs object to having to take in less desirable messmates while those fur the down the social hierarchy resent getting the leftovers. But these adjustments are small in comparison to the value of giving every upperclassman a regular place to eat. Fifty years late, the new system has proved Wilson's charges partially wrong...
...Town. What went wrong? One TVman thought that Satins was overpromoted: "NBC kept crowing about how much money they were spending, and that leaves a bad taste in people's mouths. They have mixed reactions to a network that can spend that much." Some viewers, curiously, seemed to resent the fact that the show was televised in color. Said a Long Island housewife: "I can't get color on my set, so why should I waste time watching a show when the best thing about it is its color?" The makers of Hazel Bishop cosmetics...