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Trampled Will. The plain fact was that the U.S. faced increasing antagonism among Okinawa's 600,000 people. Despite the prosperity brought by 55,000 U.S. military personnel and their dependents, Okinawans resent the fact that the U.S. has commandeered one-fifth of the crowded island's arable land for military use, chafe under the U.S. refusal to consider returning the island to Japan "in the foreseeable future." * After Moore's highhanded tactics with Senaga, feeling ran so high that no pro-American candidate dared even enter the race...
...handcuffed her when she scratched him and attempted to break away, finally cajoled her into talking about herself. "We never spanked her," said her mother, attractive Ruth Nystrom, "but I was strict with her. That's the way I was brought up. She didn't seem to resent it. Mothers used to say to me 'Oh, if only my daughter listened to me like that. I guess she was rebelling against authority...
They take turns play-acting the part of their mistress, dressing in her clothes, speaking her lines, thinking of her lover; they resent the mistress--she has the capacity, shallow though it is, to be happy. One of the maids has tried to strangle her, and failed; the other tries to poison her, and fails. Both, spilling lines at each other terribly quickly, hurl insults and acid pessimism and gloom--"I am the dung heap on which I grow"--at one another until finally, one of them poisons herself, having commanded the other to offer her the cup. Why such...
...Indian Affairs official put it: "The Indians are going to have to face the fact that they will soon be 21. We are doing our damndest to give them the best possible preparation. But a lot of them don't want to face the fact, and they resent...
...Still, Al grew to resent reference to the vulgar necessities of his sort of life. So did his brother, Tough Tony, who ran the Brooklyn piers for him. "Murderer?" Tony once rasped to a reporter. "He kill anybody in your family yet?" Al was proud of his children and became a heavy spender in New York toy stores. He was mourned last week, however, in a very narrow circle. Only Tough Tony gave any public display of grief. When a New York Daily News reporter called him and announced that Al had been shot to death, Tony said: "What...