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Democrats not inclined to support Stevenson would resent his using the dinner for his personal sendoff. So he decided to announce just before the Democrats began to gather in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Not for the Exercise | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...frippery remake of the stark 1941 High Sierra starring Humphrey Bogart. As it emerges from the Hollywood mill this time, the film has a theme nearly as silly as its new title: it argues that society should not put a confirmed criminal behind bars because he may resent it. Jack Palance, paroled after eight years in the pen, shows his exasperation by rapping assorted citizens on the skull with his gun butt and putting a slug into a guard who gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...these garden apartments which most of the neighborhood favor. "I would be sorry to see any change in this neighborhood," said one resident, "but I would not be so bitter about the garden apartments. I do still resent the big building," she added...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Opposition to Housing Plan Partially Dies | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...Would so many law professors of today be so highly indulgent toward those who invoke the amendment if they did not resent, at least subconsciously, investigation of behavior which in their opinion was inspired by motives of idealism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIFTH AMENDMENT: THE FIFTH AMENDMENT | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...direct pitch for business, talk shop either on the greens or in the locker room. But at front-rank clubs, the hustler is shunned like the plague. The good clubs are hard to get into and expensive (up to $6,000 for the initiation fee alone), and most members resent an obvious mixing of business with pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COUNTRY CLUBS: Business Follows the Golfer | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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