Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bostonians might resent such darts if an outsider threw them. But Dahl hails from neighboring Quincy (pronounced-in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts-"Quinzy"), is accepted as one of the family. He started on the Herald in 1928 as a $20-a-week illustrator. By last week, on his 39th birthday, his bosses (who hand sonorous, syndicated Columnist Bill Cunningham $25,000 a year) had raised Boston's top local cartooner to $115 a week...
...there is one, and only one, state of affairs which could possibly induce us to take such a step. If a time should come when the people of eight provinces believe . . . that their lives and destinies are being controlled and influenced by Quebec. . .it is conceivable that they might resent it so forcefully that some other condition than confederation might be preferable. This is not the fantastic projection of a nightmare. It is a possibility...
...urged his countrymen to answer every letter from U.S. businessmen, but he made one plea: "Don't make any comments on American politics. Never praise Mr. Roosevelt. Although he is dead, those who hated him then hate him now and those who liked him resent praise from Britain...
...have read your write-up on Ed Crump and Memphis (TiME, May 27) . . . and I resent the insinuation you have made at our white men with Negro mistresses, which is [an] insult to our white citizens...
...sort of resent being charged with napping, the evidence being that Parker Pen has not brought out a ball pen [TIME, May 13]. It's like charging you with napping because the Curtis Publishing Co. brought out a magazine called Holiday and you didn't. Maybe you didn't want...