Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to congratulate you on the stand you have taken in the Feb. 25 issue against the Ku Klux Klan. I think all decent people in the South resent the Klan and its activities. The class of people who make up this organization are generally of the lower class, and most of them are very illiterate and easily misled...
...suggestion I want to make. Please keep your reporters away from the trial, and try not to meddle in this case too much. Just as sure as Drew Pearson, TIME, LIFE and the N.A.A.C.P. start "sticking their nose" into this case, the people of North Carolina are going to resent it. And although their conscience would say that these fellows should be convicted, they will not do it. This is just a suggestion for what it is worth...
Through the Fan. Now when he wanted to take her home he had to catch her in the grotto with a butterfly net. She did not seem to resent this treatment. She flew all around his house while his mother stayed locked in her own room. One night the White Lady flew through the blades of a humming electric fan. She performed the trick over & over, to demonstrate her control, but when Dubkin ran the fan at full speed (1,200 r.p.m.), she could sense that the blades were moving too fast and would not try to fly through them...
...Word. On the TV screen, Taft at first seemed to take these charges calmly. But Sokolsky's temper had a lower ignition point. Tossing his mane, he shouted indignantly: "I resent very much anyone giving the impression that Senator Taft is a liar, and if I were Senator Taft I would rise now and leave this program . . . Only scoundrels lie. And the word 'lie' is a bad word, and when a man impugns the truth of another man, he places himself outside good manners, and I resent...
...Having been a sometime resident of Eton and Windsor, and having come to own an affection for the legend and tradition which abound on both the Eton and Windsor sides of the Thames . . . I resent, sir, the present Duke of Wellington's contention that his forebear did not remark that "the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton" [TIME...