Word: resentment
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...Governor Stoughton seemed to resent this affront. Although his spirit remained quite for some years, it had an insidious effect on the occupants of the new hall. The two historians Francis Parkman and William Hickling Prescott both later went blind, and Richard Henry Dana had to go off to sea to recover his eyesight. Even the burbling Oliver Wendell Holmes was daunted during his year of residence, managing to mutter only, "I am as cross as a wild-cat sometimes." Stoughton remained gloomy for years, inwardly boiling at the more light-hearted Hollis, where the Hasty Pudding Club...
...Confirmed New York Accountant Joseph Campbell, former atomic energy commissioner, as U.S. Comptroller General by voice vote (in which a few loud nays were heard from Democrats who resent Campbell's approval of the Dixon-Yates contract...
...ordinarily amiable English bulldog who has been carrying TIME clenched be tween my teeth each week to my master, I resent the human reporting in regard to the sterling qualities of my breed in your Feb. 28 issue. "Disobedient," "broods," "lazy," "never plays!"-Poppycock! At my present age of six years I will . . outpull any team of horses-in proportion to my weight. As for not playing, my master says I wear out toys more quickly than any other dog . . . . If by "unsociable" you refer to a certain digestive peculiarity that results in a sort of double-barreled halitosis...
Next morning, joking and relaxed, they met in the Roney Plaza's rose-carpeted Ocean Lounge. Reuther heard C.I.O. Secretary Carey reading aloud a Miami Herald report on the "labor bosses," and exclaimed smilingly: "I resent that. Why don't they say 'Trade Union Statesmen Gather in Miami'?" Meany. a cigar clamped in his teeth, sat at the piano and ripped off jazz melodies. The C.I.O.'s Carey put on a shirt printed with the labels of all A.F.L. unions. By noon the last comma was in place, and the full committee of 20 A.F.L...
...feel that only the immature student would resent guidance that does nothing if not allow him more free time to develop his independent interests. Newell Bryan, Robecca Faxon, Nelia Gray, Anne Kliby, and Sue Lawton...