Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small businessman, I resent being called an s.o.b., and resent the multimillionaire Kennedy family's seeming aversion to anyone else's making a few bucks...
...believe that only evil can come of them. But surely some good is being done: penniless men are finding work. However foully Northern cities treat their Negro population, they still offer them a world of opportunity the South cannot match. And while jobless Negroes in the North will resent the jobs so ostentatiously offered the newcomers from New Orleans, most of the jobs given them so far have been positions which Northern Negroes would not have been permitted to fill. The public stir attending the migrants helps them break into Northern occupations and places which have, up to now, excluded...
...Volpe talks as if he's the only decent man in Massachusetts politics," McLaughlin continued, "Well, he isn't. I resent the inference that everyone who is a Democrat is dishonest...
...until I am an old grad--ready to overlook such points--I will resent the very slipshod way in which this year's volume has been put together. Much of the copy reads like a bad first draft, and the dummying is totally unimaginative. I am told that part of the trouble is that some of the copy really is first draft, and that many of the pages were in fact dummied in one night. The yearbook staff has had its troubles this term, God knows, but they really must pull themselves together...
...Federation (Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland) has been kept by Britain's steadying influence from falling into the turmoil of the Congo, and its native population has not been so riven by tribal savagery as Kenya's. But the 8,300,000 blacks resent being dominated by 305,000 whites, and under the proposed new British constitution for Northern Rhodesia, the largely disenfranchised blacks would have a chance to win control -and to break up the Federation. That is what Welensky is trying to ward off; in federal parliamentary elections this week, he is seeking...