Word: resentments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Visiting Rights. Many of Florida's voters have a feeling that the U.S. is going downhill. They resent this and feel powerless to check the slide. "Yes, we're going down," says Grace Cassidy, operator of a Daytona Beach notions store. "We're in serious trouble," agrees Fort Lauderdale Boat Captain Bob Twist...
...they harbored any pro- or anti-war sentiment strong enough to make them incapable of rendering a just decision (see box). He later irked the defense by ordering that the jury, after selection, be sequestered; the defendants claim that juries locked away from their families for months tend to resent the defendants and consequently hand down more severe verdicts...
...resent your scurrilous portrayal of the President of the United States on the cover. You have given aid and comfort to the enemy. You have taken a cheap shot at a great...
...face a delicate task. They share a visceral determination, strengthened by the personal presidential ambitions of half a dozen Senators, to knock Nixon out of office. Even such usually cooperative politicians as Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, House Speaker Carl Albert and House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills resent what they consider Nixon's highhandedness with Congress. They want to do him in. But they dare not appear merely as obstructionist, and must give their party a positive congressional record on which to run. They know only too well that Nixon, like Truman, is the kind of gut fighter...
Such theatrics might seem merely eccentric to Americans if they came from, say, an exotic sect such as Hare Krishna. When they are presented in the name of Christianity, however, people who consider themselves good churchgoing Christians resent the purer-than-thou attitude-and the appeal it seems to hold for their children. Nonetheless, the group in some cases has had more success than parents in winning young people from drugs, casual sex and drifting. They also have potent precedents in St. Francis of Assisi and St. Thomas Aquinas, both of whom had to break with their families over their...