Word: complain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Casablanca Conference in a letter to his son John, wrote: "The day [De Gaulle] arrived he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted he was Georges Clemenceau." A series of equally bitter arguments over British policy in Syria and Madagascar led Winston Churchill to complain: "Of all the crosses I have borne since 1940 none is so heavy as the Cross of Lorraine...
...with farm prices rising rapidly (TIME, May 12), Claude Wickard, no longer running for public office, abandoned agricultural recession as a Democratic issue. Confiding to reporters in Kansas City that his 620-acre farm at Camden, Ind. is making money hand over fist, Wickard said: "I can't complain about $21 hogs. My son-in-law and I sold ten Holstein cows the other day for $240 each. I didn't believe in Santa Claus until then...
Canadian officials in Ottawa, who frequently complain that Canada's genuine gripes against the U.S. seldom penetrate the famed "undefended border," last week were happily quoting a report published in Washington for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. In it, Congressmen Brooks Hays of Arkansas and Frank M. Coffin of Maine, both Democrats, tartly warned of a disturbing "erosion in the traditionally excellent relationships between the United States and Canada," called on the U.S. to mend its thoughtless ways of dealing with its neighbor. Some Canadian newspapers saluted the report as confirming what they had been saying all along...
Squeeze the Lemon. Not all of Teacher Ergil's innovations have been made in the slow youngsters' math class. To bright students who complain about the quality of their classes, he advises, "First squeeze your teacher as you would a lemon, and when there is no more lemon juice, then you can complain. I don't know a single teacher in this school who has been squeezed of what he knows." Two months ago, a group of college prep students pestered Ergil to play lemon. Result: twice a week, after school hours, he conducts a seminar...
Science is harder to get into than most colleges; last summer 3,900 of New York City's brightest students applied, and only 750 were accepted. Occasionally, critics complain that such selectivity is undemocratic; others, notably onetime Harvard President James B. Conant, who is engaged in an intensive study of U.S. high schools, argue that modern comprehensive high schools can provide the varied training needed by all kinds of students, bright ones included...