Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those Mississippians who resent being dragged screaming into the 2Oth century, I can only say: Come on in; the rest of us have been here for some years, and it isn't as bad as you think...
...bedtime stories for 20 years. When you have older brothers and sisters, they're the ones that seem to be more important in a family, and always get the best rooms and the first choice of boats and all those kinds of things, but Ted never seemed to resent...
...economy. Settling the airline strikes over the third man in the cockpit, for example, would prove that even the knottiest problems of automation, featherbedding and union jurisdiction can be solved reasonably. Whether this be called intervention or public service is a matter for dispute. But not all businessmen resent having Goldberg in the act. Said Everett Goulard, Pan Am's vice president for industrial relations: "We welcomed the help of the Government and Goldberg in this proceeding. Goldberg was most helpful...
...Peruvians were taking care not to step on the boots of their country's new rulers. In its first days, the gold-braided military junta that overthrew President Manuel Prado two weeks ago firmly consolidated itself in power, and did it with comparative ease. However much Peruvians might resent the suspension of their constitutional processes, they seemed unwilling to risk bloodshed or civil war over...
...comes powerfully alive when it reaches the love-death climax of a wedding night. The groom-to-be. Luciano, settles in a small, primitive town, picks a local beauty to marry. He has no trouble bribing her parents to let her go, but the rest of the townspeople fiercely resent an outsider taking one of their girls. They regard him with a "hatred steaming with hot blood and entrails." On his wedding day, he tries to appease the townspeople with a band he has hired, fireworks and 120 gallons of wine. But no sooner has he retired for the night...