Word: complain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hilltop Casbah. A couple of months ago the Riffs of Morocco began to complain openly against the King's government in Rabat. They resent the city-bred administrators that Rabat has sent to govern them, claim that non-French-speaking Moroccans have been frozen out, and that government police have used arbitrary methods, including "torture that even the French could not devise." Six weeks ago an organization called the Rif Liberation and Liquidation Movement suddenly came to light, patterned after the hierarchy of the Algerian rebels across the border...
...addition Americans have a chance to love a happy old man without looking toward 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Santa Claus does not worry about big spending and never has diplomatic problems. Besides all this, it's good to drink egg nog instead of gin punch, and very few people complain about your singing if you join in on carols...
...pretty but quite lacking in real bite, Yeomen is not the Messrs.' best work. But since Sullivan's music is, as always, pleasant to the point of bewitchment; since Gilbert's buffoonery is of a very high grade; and since the pathetic moments can be quite touching, why complain...
...after reading this beautiful beeography, can again regard a spoonful of honey as merely a convenient way of disposing of a slice of toast. And only a captious reader will complain of sedulous Apiarist Crompton's unholier-than-thou attitude toward the bee. The bee is better than me, seems to be his buzz...
...been to hamper organizing by weak unions. In Iowa, says Federation of Labor President Ray Mills, "it has become almost impossible to organize areas where workers are in an especially weak position." In Utah, which has probably the only right-to-work law with real teeth in it, unionists complain that it is hard to organize workers at all. In fact, there has not been an organizing strike or picket line for the last three years...