Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive to rid the neighborhood of a plague of wood-chucks. Nothing will do but that they take their place in the beaters' line. Hester is no mental ball of fire, but a few things quickly become clear to her: 1) most of the people in the town resent...
...that program in their personal campaigns-not on hoped-for presidential endorsements. The program is a real umbrella under which to operate. He did not intend, Ike continued, to get into partisan struggles on the local level, because, were he in the position of the voter, he would resent that kind of intrusion from the President of the United States...
Many killed themselves. Of these, Gibson reports a "strange feature": "As people decided to jump overboard, they seemed to resent the fact that others were being left with a chance of safety. They would try to seize the rations and fling them overboard [or] pull the bung which would let in the water...
...Klansters. After that, Washington had only one unpleasant experience-the time when a fellow student used the word nigger in class. Washington felt that the student had acted only out of habit, but, says he, "there were a few liberals in the room who I knew would resent it if I showed no offense. So I turned around and looked at the fellow with as stern a look as I could muster." Washington never heard "that word" again...
...Roman Catholic, and while I do not agree with the teachings of the Church of England, I do greatly resent your publishing this type of utter nonsense...