Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restless career as a tramp newspaperman. Recalls Little: "Some copyreader or some louse of an editor would get rough with my magnificent prose, and I'd feel in my pocket to see how much dough I had. If I had enough for a railroad ticket, I'd resent what he'd done and walk out. If I was broke, I'd wait until payday and then resent." Little resented his way from Cleveland to Chicago, Paris, Wichita and Oklahoma City. Along the way, he stored up inspiration for a song called Flat on My Prat...
...runs across southern England, with the wife (Evelyn Keyes) under one arm, and under the other an atomic spy. The colonel figures that if he buddies up to one spy he might run down a lot of others. Well, cars full of sincere-looking extras-Scotland Yard men, who resent McCrea's interference-roar in pursuit, and platoons of snaky-looking loungers, the agents of "a foreign power," lie in wait. Alfred Hitchcock might have zipped his man through them all as niftily as a gamma ray through a cream puff, but Hero McCrea has no such luck...
Finally, eight white and four Negro families got together and started distributing signs to their neighbors, stating: THIS HOUSE IS NOT FOR SALE. Attached to the sign was a letter: "We like this neighborhood . . . Constant pressure from real-estate brokers is annoying and we resent it ... We have found that some white families are still under the mistaken impression that a community or block must remain all white or 'go all colored' [and] that property values decline when colored families move in ... Values do not decline except during panic selling...
...Complaints. Apollos, Tortoiseshells, Small Coppers, Red Admirals and Queens of Spain-over the years the Newmans have collected them all. Neither two world wars nor the 1931 British financial crisis was enough to put the farm out of business. However, Hugh did resent it when he had to collect moths. No true butterfly man likes to go blundering through the damp bracken in the dark, flailing at bushes and clutching brambles...
Look East, Old Europe. Next to the Iron Curtain, European and Japanese traders resent the thickets of U.S. tariffs and import regulations. Said a Japanese: "The Americans tell us not to trade with the Communists . . . then they turn around and raise their duties on tuna and silk scarves. It doesn't make sense...