Word: resentments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...testified, was to get convictions against the actual burglars, then grant them immunity against further prosecution and pressure them into revealing the higher origins of the crime. He claimed that the case had been 90% solved when it was taken away from him. "Damn it!" he protested. "I resent the appointment of a special prosecutor...
...years ahead, Kaunda will face another kind of internal challenge: finding ways of transferring power to the younger, better educated men now entering Zambian politics. They openly resent the old-guard politicians for their corruption, incompetence and perks of power, which the younger men refer to as the "three Ms" - mansions, Mercedes-Benzes and mistresses. But for the moment, Kaunda is indisputably the national hero, and his re-election is assured. His most impressive triumph will presumably come late next year - perhaps on Oct. 24, the tenth anniversary of his country's independence - when he stands at the throttle...
Since the committee wants to complete its hearings by Nov. 1, only four weeks are left to explore the other subjects of its investigation: campaign "dirty tricks" and improper financing of the 1972 presidential campaign. Several staff members resent the early deadline, saying that it does not leave enough time to explore fully the non-Watergate phases of the investigation. Some hope that the hearings may yet be extended beyond Nov. 1. Said one staffer who is involved in investigating dirty tricks: "It depends on what we turn up, and I think we are going to turn up some pretty...
...think all New Yorkers are beginning to resent such references to our city. Certainly there is too much crime in New York City, but there is also a massive anti-crime effort. Surely TIME has received the latest FBI reports showing that of the nation's 25 largest cities, 18 have overall rates of crime higher than New York...
...isolation is bred arrogance and unworldliness. Age, on the other hand, did not have the benefit of easy contact with youth. There was a tendency either to defect rather mindlessly to youth, accepting uncritically an alteration of values, or to develop a siege mentality and fear and resent one's own children. It was all too easy, depending on one's point of view, to hold youth responsible for what was good in society or to blame it for what was bad. In this way, one could avoid the complexities and ambiguities of a genuine analysis of American...