Word: resents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps because of his personal popularity with the Soviet masses, Klim is often called "Stalin's only rival." Stories constantly circulate that Klim and other Red Army officers strongly resent the privileged position of Stalin's praetorian guard, the OGPU "Special Troops." It has even been stated that the Red Army's rifles are taken away from it every night and locked up in each barracks by the OGPU-doubtless an exaggeration, but not without significance...
...Encouraged by steelmen and not denied by motor makers is a persistent rumor that other automobile companies will take a tip from Henry Ford and buy or build their own steel plants. Steel's biggest customers resent the fact that under the steel code they no longer get discounts on their orders. Last week it was no sooner discovered that General Motors was dickering for an option on Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co., than it was learned that negotiations had been dropped...
...third and last important obstacle to newspaper code was the question of child labor. Almost all U. S. newspapers use newsboys, of which there are 570,000 in the U. S. All NRA codes signed so far prohibit child labor. Newspapers resent being told not to use newsboys. Last week, the Bronx Home News discharged 100 newsboys who had tried to organize a carriers' union...
Real slang is invented by persons antisocial enough to resent commonplace terms but too ignorant to use synonyms. Publisher Funk's list necessarily omitted the coiners of such plain and useful words as "washout," "lousy," "okay," "beat it," "razz." Last week the fatherly New York Times which never permits slang to appear in its columns commented thus: "Good slang is 'sock on the jaw' and poor slang is 'economic Neanderthals' both from the collection of General Hugh Johnson. The first is as near to the soil as corned beef & cabbage; the second is recherch...
...York World, who helped found the liberal Federated Press service as a medium for labor news. Even the fact that an experienced and liberal minded confrere had been given the job was not enough to make the correspondents believe Mr. Morgenthau's disavowal of censorship. Always quick to resent such tactics the correspondents promptly expressed their feelings in a letter to President Roosevelt at Warm Springs: "We . . . formally protest against the rigid restrictions imposed by Mr. Morgenthau. . . . The Secretary's order includes factual or statistical information ordinarily available to the Press through officials. . . . It is our belief that...