Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move with caution while he measured Russian reactions. Another is the plain impossibility of dismantling overnight the barnacled apparatus of a hard-lining Communist state. Last week Dubček finally acted against the conservative Communists remaining in both the government and the party who fear and resent the promised economic and political changes. At a meeting of the Czechoslovak Central Committee Dubček ousted his predecessor, Antonin Novotný, from the committee-his last position of influence-and suspended the party membership not only of Novotný, but also of six former collaborators until their share...
...last sentence reads like a phrase from an SDS leaflet; the poor resent the restrictions on their behavior, the intrusions into their privacy which they must tolerate to receive welfare benefits. Even the liberals who don't care about economic efficiency join Friedman here; the issue of human dignity makes them allies. However, many liberals suspect that Republican Congressmen, like Melvin Laird of Wisconsin, will try to pass minimal subsidy legislation as a justification for other cuts in welfare spending, leading to a net reduction of aid to the poor. This certainly bothers many moderates and liberals who would otherwise...
...little noticeable effect on their people. The Negroes of Barrington have been intimidated for years. They don't want to risk what they do have. Even McCarthy's proposed guaranteed annual income through a negative income tax was suspect. The people of Barrington work for what they get. They resent it--silently...
...country is a crossroads of racial bitterness. Black-nationalist guerrillas use it as a base for raids on the neighboring white supremacist regimes in Rhodesia and Southwest Africa. In turn, white agents infiltrate the country to spy on them. Zambia's 3,800,000 blacks resent the white minority of about 65,000, many of whom are Rhodesian and South African citizens who still hold the managerial jobs...
...people who are climbing back in are marked by their wetness. Offered a towel by one of the new people, a girl pointedly says no thank you, I haven't been out. Rationally, we 27 are glad that there are now 100 people in the office, but emotionally we resent them. As people dry out, the old and new become less easily differentiable, and I mourn the loss of my identity. I am trying for a field promotion in the movement so that I will not fade into the masses who jumped and might jump again...