Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secret police: "During my three-year administration as governor of Formosa, hardly a day passed without some bitter struggle with the secret police . . . They made numberless illegal arrests. They tortured and they blackmailed . . . The people . . . only dare to resent but not to speak in the open...
...years have been prepared for statehood, are dismayed at events in the Senate. Living in territories, they must pay taxes, but have no vote in Congress. Highway and school benefits that are automatically awarded to all states are given to them only through special legislation. Understandably they resent Presidential appointment of governor, judges, and other officials whom the citizens of the forty-eight states elect. Political bickering should not keep from them the rights they deserve as mature citizens...
...bitterly resent your biased and misleading sketch of Vice President Aaron Burr ... A rehash of old calumnies, invented by his enemies ... It would have been more appropriate for you to have called attention to his many fine personal qualities and to his great services to our country...
...continuing an tipathy for Moscow by granting Tito's regime another $8,400,000 in aid. It is a fact, however, that Tito's ranks are heavily populated with rugged, old-line Communists who, while not favoring a return to the boa-constrictor embrace of the Kremlin, resent any straying from the steely dialectics of true Communism, and distrust anything but opportunistic relations with the West...
DUDLEY NICHOLS Los Angeles Sir: . . . The article . . . was written with organ-toned whimsy ... I resent . . . being told that Anna Christie is one of Eugene O'Neill's "worst" plays, and I resent being told that O'Neill ranks just below Shaw and O'Casey as a 20th century dramatist ... I am not privy to your sources . . . but I am of the opinion that neither you nor anyone else is in a position just yet to say which of Eugene O'Neill's plays are the "worst...