Word: complain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawbacks. Unlike the small shops, the supermarkets do not give credit or make home deliveries. Most Italian housewives cannot afford imported foods, cannot take home much food on a motor scooter, and do not have a refrigerator to store the food at home. Nonetheless, shopkeepers located near supermarkets complain that their business is down a third. Even Communist housewives have ignored the Red complaint that "Rockefeller is strangling the food merchants...
...visit to Riga was interesting in this respect. There, the Russians complain that the Latvians are "discriminating against us." The Latvian language is replacing Russian in many educational institutions and in some state organizations. Result: some Russians are leaving. In Estonia I was told the process is more noticeable; Estonians refuse to speak Russian and turn their backs on the Russians in stores. And the Russians are taking...
...whole gloss and excitement of the quiz shows was being badly tarnished by evidence of corner-carnival showmanship and petty chiseling. Other contestants were coming forth to complain that not only the producers but their Schlockmeisters (prize procurers) were making ninnies of the public...
...surge to the shopping centers has had one bad effect on merchants in nearby Hackensack, long the area's hub. They complain that their sales are down. But the experience of other retailers throughout the U.S. is that shopping centers attract new customers to the whole area from far and wide, and thus overall sales should move up eventually...
...plaster-faced . . . gotten up like a circus clown and acting a fantastic, strenuously contrived role which showed no human characteristic." He often carried firearms. Once he was shooting the tops off champagne bottles lined up against a wall behind which some children were playing. Their mother hurried over to complain that her children might be shot. "If that should ever happen, Madame, we should ourselves be delighted to get some new ones with you," Jarry courteously replied...