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Finally, eight white and four Negro families got together and started distributing signs to their neighbors, stating: THIS HOUSE IS NOT FOR SALE. Attached to the sign was a letter: "We like this neighborhood . . . Constant pressure from real-estate brokers is annoying and we resent it ... We have found that some white families are still under the mistaken impression that a community or block must remain all white or 'go all colored' [and] that property values decline when colored families move in ... Values do not decline except during panic selling...
...Complaints. Apollos, Tortoiseshells, Small Coppers, Red Admirals and Queens of Spain-over the years the Newmans have collected them all. Neither two world wars nor the 1931 British financial crisis was enough to put the farm out of business. However, Hugh did resent it when he had to collect moths. No true butterfly man likes to go blundering through the damp bracken in the dark, flailing at bushes and clutching brambles...
Look East, Old Europe. Next to the Iron Curtain, European and Japanese traders resent the thickets of U.S. tariffs and import regulations. Said a Japanese: "The Americans tell us not to trade with the Communists . . . then they turn around and raise their duties on tuna and silk scarves. It doesn't make sense...
Basis of Civilization. As the years passed, the Larsons found themselves more & more alone in their battle. Their Catholic friends began to drop them, and some of their Protestant friends began to resent the trouble they seemed to be causing. Meanwhile, the Larson children continued to learn Catholic songs and to study Catholic books. "This text," said one of their books, "is an attempt to infuse into the English activities of our modern day the spirit of the Church through a consciousness of her liturgy." Said another: "The basis of our civilization is Catholic civilization...
...urgent. The evidence suggests that TIME borrowed its attitude from the Air Force. As we wrote in our series, the Lincoln report bypassed the Air Force, and was presented directly to the National Security Council and the White House. As we also stated, the air generals not only resent this "end run"; they also have a professional deformation on the subject of air defense. They say: "Offense is the best defense." They warn against a "Maginot Line of the air." What they really mean is that an air defense may compete, especially for appropriations, with the Strategic Air Command...