Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people of Flint, white and Negro, who voted the city's fair housing ordinance into being, resent your reference, "Black Power exponents pushed through an open-housing ordinance" [March 1]. People believing in people and their community voted in the ordinance. The chairman of the committee striving for the ordinance was the white executive director of the Greater Flint Council of Churches...
More important, there is growing discontent among the officers of Nasser's army, who understandably resent their role as scapegoats for Israel's victory in June. As long as Nasser could count on the unquestioned admiration of his worshipful populace, no military leader dared lift a finger against him. But the admiration is now in question, the populace is no longer entirely worshipful, and the possibility of a military coup can no longer be dismissed. The fact that there is no visible movement of anti-Nasser officers means little, as Nasser himself well knows. Who, after...
Like any other new democracy, Penn has not resolved all its procedural problems. Many professors resent students on curriculum committees. Some power-hungry students regard the gains so far as nothing but tokenism, and ask why the faculty should have any voice at all in setting social rules. "Students don't tell faculty members what time to come in," protests Sophomore Stephen Marmon. "What business do they have telling us what time to come in?" But even Marmon is proud that "while Berkeley students used confrontation, Penn students used communication, consensus and compromise...
...final factor is Ted Kennedy. The men on the Hill resent his quick rise to power, his avoidance of the state Party, and his identification with the Yankees rather than the Irish. Ted would naturally seem able to use his influence as a U.S. Senator to help get the Library built. In fact he has no influence on Beacon Hill...
...policy was successful in attracting faculty members, but caused problems with the Instructors already in the department. "There was no real personal animosity," one of them said, "but we did resent the new policy. We had served here two or three years, and we were being passed over for people who had just graduated...