Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resent people walking around saying we don't care about the handicapped," he said...
...member of a Cajun family that has spoken French since 1699. I resent the efforts to banish our language and render us foreigners in the land of our birth. Abolishing bilingual ballots, for example, will disenfranchise millions of American citizens who are more at ease in languages others than English. This crusade against bilingualism is not just xenophobia; it is fear of the diversity that is the essence of America itself...
Many passengers, however, resent being captives on grounded airliners. When Valerie Woods, a Chicago public relations executive, sat for 90 minutes in an American Airlines jet at Logan, the cabin became so hot that attendants opened the plane doors. Why were the victims held there instead of in the cool terminal? Because, Woods was told, the crew wanted to be able "to go as quickly as possible...
...hidden vegetarian agenda. His descriptions of the insensitive technology of pig farming and "porcine stress syndrome" take the fun out of a ham sandwich. Yet In the Company of Animals is not intended to change our habits but to open our minds. Historians, psychologists, sociologists and Lady Beaverbrook may resent Serpell's romp through their territories. Both petted and petless readers should welcome the incursions...
...forget the horrors that Naziism visited on hundreds of millions of people throughout the world. No doubt it is unpleasant to cast aspersions on a much beloved world statesman or to raise a fuss over a short visit to a cemetary at Bitburg. There is a temptation to resent what German Chancellor Helmut Kohl called, "an arrogance of the late-born," but there is no excuse for not facing the truth--as ugly...