Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AFSCME is the fastest-growing union in the AFL-CIO, and its militant leaders are determined to fight hard for higher pay for its 700,000 members. The union's goals appeal to municipal employees, especially policemen, who resent laws restricting the right of public servants to be on strike. Said one Baltimore cop with 17 years on the force: "I've bled for this city. I've been through riots and fires, but the people don't seem to care. Well, it's time they gave something back...
...work stoppages, along with strikes in services, were not "bonfires of straw that would go out in a few minutes." Labor leaders, for the most part, are willing to wait until autumn to let the government decrees take corrective effect. But they are being pressed by militant workers who resent the taxes and want to fight them with a general strike...
...patient who will ultimately bear the burden of increased costs. Many doctors now try to protect themselves against lawsuits by running extra tests and taking additional X rays, the price of which is reflected on the patient's bill. Physicians generally resent the need to practice such "defensive medicine" but feel that it is absolutely necessary. "We are shivering in our boots," says Dr. John Gregory, a Bronxville, N.Y., obstetrician. "We sometimes find that we face almost every patient more as an adversary than a friend." Gregory and his partners in practice protect themselves by ordering a wide range...
...familiar old hymns but many other pious practices that have been widely discarded since Vatican II: novenas, benediction, meatless Fridays, priests wearing cassocks and birettas, nuns wearing wimples. The old rituals and disciplines were visible symbols that Catholics were different from (and perhaps better than) other people. Many who resent the passing of traditional Catholic ways seem to feel that a comfortable certainty has vanished with the piety...
...newsmen were already emotionally committed to the civil rights movement. George Wallace foreshadowed one of the Spiro Agnew themes as he attacked the Northern liberal press for meddling in the South. As racial tension spread, whites in other regions who felt threatened by minority-group pressure also came to resent the press's role...