Word: resenters
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...great danger in democracy is that people resent any presence of necessary discipline as opposed to freedom; it is not necessary to Prussianize a nation through militarism, but an athlete knows that discipline and control are necessary to his own freedom in order to do his best work...
...merely guessing. They revolted, and United States warships were sent to preserve order. President Roosevelt, being a man who never goes around a table if he can jump over it, seized the opportunity for acquiring the Canal Zone. The Treaty of 1846 was clearly violated, and the Colombians naturally resent...
...does not, but one would think that the men who work hard and faithfully for six months of the year, who go through a period of training much more rigid than any other sport, and who give the last ounce of their strength in the Yale race, would bitterly resent such a lack of appreciation on the part of the men they strive so hard worthily to represent. As has been said before, the average undergraduate has no faith in the present system, a system which makes possible such dastardly stories as circulated about the country last summer concerning...
...fact so well known that it hardly needs to be demonstrated. Just to prove it, if you doubt it, ask the first ten men you meet in the Yard how much ready money they have with them, available for charity or anything else. Their answer will indicate why they resent indiscriminate personal appeals...
Even after this disturbances occasionally occurred at prayers, those who thought they had any grievances taking advantage of such time to resent them. Compulsory attendance upon religious exercises seemed to many to justify their using every means to evade or disregard them. Thus the bell was turned up and filled with water which froze at night: the rope on which it was hung was cut and the Bible was stolen from the pulpit...