Word: resentments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That's an effort; that's nice," said O'Leary, "but if they will not practice French, they will not speak this language." Little French is spoken west of Ontario, and many people in the western provinces resent having to learn another language. Some feel that the government takes their taxes in order to "shove French down their throats." This attitude is obviously not conducive to the preservation of Canadian unity...
...very convenient for people to blame feminism for the low status housewives have and feel, but the phrase "just a housewife" was not invented by women's liberation-it has been in use for a long time. Many men want their wives to stay home and then resent them for doing...
...toolmakers, a craftsmanly elite among auto workers, earn an average $110 a week. The pay is higher than for most assembly-line laborers, but the differential has eroded under 20 months of Phase 1 and Phase 2 government wage control. As a small minority in the A.U.E.W., the toolmakers resent the union leadership and want to negotiate with Leyland directly. Skilled workers elsewhere rallied to their support. Some 400 Rolls-Royce toolmakers staged a one-day sympathy strike...
...though Ms. Rosenthal admits that "Wilson has nothing explicitly to say about race in his book," she nevertheless proceeds to compare the book with the Ku Klux Klan, the "unjust war in Indochina," "South Africa's U.S.-backed white minority," and the Nazi's "genocide against the Jews." We resent these atrocious attempts to inflame the readers' gut-level passions, rather than present any logical foundations for intelligent objections to Professor Wilson's book. That, not the reasoned inquiry Ms. Rosenthal so stridently vilifies, is the essence of unscientific tripe...
...bones of their Afro-American heritage. "We all knew what slavery was, by hearsay and by family tradition," noted Boston Journalist Robert Jordan. "But this put all those feelings in living color where you've got to believe them." Said Little Rock Teacher Charles Pruitt: "The black kids resent what has happened and say, 'They couldn't do it to me like that,' but the white kids say, 'But look, I'm not like that...