Word: resentment
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...Senate the day of judgment is not expected until next March. In the meantime, many Senators are staying uncommitted and seem to resent the heavy pressures from both sides to make up their minds early. Their mail is overwhelmingly against the treaties, but much of it is in the form of identically worded postcards orchestrated by conservative mail-solicitation experts...
This insistence that Lance had done no wrong increased the puzzlement of old Washington hands about Jimmy Carter. Many members of the Washington establishment still resent that he made them an issue in the campaign, often with moralistic promises to do better than they had ("I'll never lie to you"). These legislators and bureaucrats are not displeased to see Carter set back, but many of them also worry that his mishandling of the Lance affair shows that he is more isolated than is good for the country...
...former supporters that he has deserted liberalism on law-and-order questions. "The illiberal liberals want to chop your head off if you support capital punishment," Koch declares. "It's immoral, they say. Why is it immoral? It's part of the Judaeo-Christian tradition. I resent those liberals who let conservatives preempt issues which are of concern to the people, like crime...
...leaders whose basic conservatism and advancing age (Politburo average: 67) make them unable to respond quickly to changes. Carter and Vance also gave the press details of the new proposals; the Soviet leaders are accustomed to the kind of confidential diplomacy skillfully practiced by Henry Kissinger, and they especially resent being embarrassed or put on the defensive before the world...
...course. Christians were accepted as being Jews, and the Messianic Jews say they are trying to re-establish those bygone days. Ever since the two faiths divided, however, proselytism has been one of their touchiest disputes, exacerbated by Christian anti-Semitism and centuries of forced conversions. Most Jews fiercely resent all proselytizing, and many Christian denominations now oppose organized efforts to convert Jews...