Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian Affairs official put it: "The Indians are going to have to face the fact that they will soon be 21. We are doing our damndest to give them the best possible preparation. But a lot of them don't want to face the fact, and they resent...
...Still, Al grew to resent reference to the vulgar necessities of his sort of life. So did his brother, Tough Tony, who ran the Brooklyn piers for him. "Murderer?" Tony once rasped to a reporter. "He kill anybody in your family yet?" Al was proud of his children and became a heavy spender in New York toy stores. He was mourned last week, however, in a very narrow circle. Only Tough Tony gave any public display of grief. When a New York Daily News reporter called him and announced that Al had been shot to death, Tony said: "What...
...displaced hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee I resent your slurring, disgraceful, damnable remark about hillbillies and Governor Faubus...
...style rural homes are having trouble staying at 100% of capacity, those near the bright lights are besieged with more applicants than they can handle. Says Director Lois Slonaker, who has a waiting list of 200 women at Evanston's 115-place Alonzo Mather Home: "What people resent more than anything else in rural locations is the feeling of being put on the shelf and laid aside. Some of our women lead the social life of a debutante...
...predict what will happen when the paratroopers are replaced by the National Guard, or when uniformed troops are withdrawn entirely. Certainly the majority of Little Rock citizens oppose integration and many more resent the presence of military force...