Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story on The Younger Generation (TIME, Nov. 5), the expression that most young people seemed to resent (often while grudgingly admitting its accuracy) was "silent generation...
...Italian, an Italian general, Maurizio de Castiglione, who fought under Rommel in North Africa, was appointed to head them. But the fighting men of Turkey and Greece, newly admitted last February to NATO's forces, refused point-blank to take orders from an Italian. The Greeks still resent Italy's jackal invasion of their land in 1940; the sturdy Turks just do not admire Italian soldiering. Britain's Mediterranean fleet, under the command of Vice Admiral Earl Mountbatten, proved equally stuffy about taking orders from Carney himself. It remained proudly aloof from the whole European command setup...
...Leader. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang resent the notion that they are living in exile. Taipei, they insist, is simply the provisional capital of China, just as Chungking was during World War II. Although Chiang's vast domain has shrunk to a mere 14,000 square miles, his icy dignity has, if anything, increased. Nobody is now, or ever was, on back-slapping terms with Chiang. At 65, he lives a Spartan life, eats sparingly, and neither drinks nor smokes...
...fact is that almost all of South Africa's airmen resent the Nationalist order that Erasmus' picture must be hung in mess halls and barracks. Erasmus is a lawyer who has had no military experience, spent World War II demanding that his country make peace with Hitler...
...child there may be a deeper, unconscious revulsion against having one. This, in turn, may be the result of emotional immaturity and dependence (seeking to make the marriage into a child-parent relationship with the husband as parent), or an aggressive, masculine personality which would make the patient resent a child's demands...