Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bound to bring a cutthroat international price war in the competition for markets.* Commenting on the new cotton plan, the National City Bank of New York said: ''Selling abroad at prices below the domestic market is 'dumping,' a policy Which other producing countries may resent. The cotton subsidy . . . notifies foreign producers that we are not interested in supporting the world price any longer, but in keeping the domestic price above...
Quick to honor a hero, quick to resent a slur are the rangy sons of the Lone Star State. Last week, quickened by both these emotional spurs, hot-hearted Texans rallied in droves to the banner of scholarly, pious Homer Price Rainey, president since 1939 of the sprawling University of Texas at Austin. Balding, unprepossessing Dr. Rainey, who worked his way through school and college to become one of the leading U.S. educators, was locked in battle with the Texas Board of Regents...
...over the 18 months minimum required. Therefore we think we know the longing with which Joe looks forward to his 21 days at home. Your article did not help to make those precious three weeks any more enjoyable. We are not afraid to face the facts, but we do resent being slapped in the face with them; we learn the unpleasant things fast enough...
...Malicious Falsehood." The President then repudiated the "old worm-eaten chestnut" that he has ever "represented himself as indispensable." This he described as a "malicious falsehood," to which, he added, he was accustomed-but he still did resent "libelous statements about...
...Belgians still blame the King for his 1940 surrender, but many blame him for not encouraging resistance. Still others resent his second marriage after the death (in a car he was driving) of popular, Swedish-born Queen Astrid. To all these Belgians, a regency for Astrid's handsome son, Prince Baudouin, 14, looked good. The next few weeks would tell whether the stewardship of the Government in Exile looked equally good...