Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both a native Southerner and a Republican, I deeply resent the President's implication that Judges Haynsworth and Carswell were the best our area could offer. In fact, they were simply second-rate candidates and were quite rightly rejected by the Senate...
...temples at Angkor were completed. Some of the carvings there depict battles between the Khmers of ancient Cambodia and the Annamese, forebears of present-day Vietnamese. In modern Cambodia, the Vietnamese and Chinese minorities dominate commerce and light industry, giving them economic clout that the majority of Cambodians sharply resent...
...Yessir?" said the young man, who was already beginning to resent the stench of alcohol on the older man's breath. He looked quietly at the other's bulging stomach. His coach had warned him about liquor...
Rubenstein also takes pains to analyze why successful groups tend to resent the remaining unmeltable pieces in the mythical melting pot. Once they have become assimilated, they assume that " 'we have arrived; therefore America has arrived.' " This fallacy, Rubenstein goes on to say, "recapitulates a tragic error-the identification of the American dream with present reality. And this, of course, is precisely what the myth of peaceful progress is intended to accomplish. The characterization of America as a peacefully self-transforming system leaves no room for violent protest. Eden is not Eden unless he who rebels...
CLAO still comes under attack from another local group-the private lawyers. The reactions of the local bravery, but some lawyers "resent us cause they think we take business away from them." Newman says. In addition. Newman said, the law students appear as a threat because they are not members of the bar, yet they often do a better job than the established lawyers...