Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freedom, and black for the people. "And what holds it up?" asks a cynical European. "A white flagpole." Such remarks are typical of many of Zambia's 77,000 whites, on whom the country depends to keep its copper mines humming and its commerce thriving. Some still resent a black government in a land so long under white rule. Kaunda shrugs off the attitude. Far from wanting to drive the whites out of Zambia, he is actively encouraging more to come...
...fast from cliche to cliche that you have barely enough time to recover from one proverb before bang comes the next. "Baby," says agent Arthur Landau to his fledgling actress Jean as he extracts one dollar from her first day's pay, "one day you're going to resent that ten per cent." And sure enough, about one hour later, she does...
Many business and government leaders today fear that Australia's beneficent role as a major Asian power could be seriously diminished if other democratic nations such as Japan-which has now replaced Britain as Australia's biggest trading partner-come to resent the all-white continent as a racist preserve-which it is not. Declares Melbourne Mining Tycoon Sir Maurice Mawby: "We must live by geography today, not history...
...Sigma Chi suspended its Stanford chapter after the local asked Negro Student Kenneth M. Washington, son of a Denver urologist, to join. Sigma Chi's National Grand Consul, Harry V. Wade, an Indianapolis insurance executive, who said in a letter to the Stanford chapter: "I personally would not resent having a high-class Chinese or Japanese boy admitted to Sigma Chi. But I know full well that his presence would be highly resented on the West Coast. Therefore I must submerge any personal feeling and refrain from proposing a Japanese or Chinese boy because of the reaction it would...
...spectacularly wrong. In the close 1948 presidential election, which tried the stamina of most pundits, he kept insisting, long after it was prudent, that Tom Dewey would win by an "overwhelming vote." Later Truman enjoyed imitating H.V.'s commentary in H.V.'s voice. Kaltenborn did not resent it; he mimicked Truman mimicking...