Word: complain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have become institutionalized into a professional pressure group, and have taken on some of its unpleasant characteristics. No issue is too large or small for your focus. You complain about tin can labels, where the Navy parks its ships. Like the American Legion you seem to accept the conspiracy theory of history," he accused...
...manufacturer can be sure of his profit until it is approved by the Government's Renegotiation Board. Airmen complain that the board, which still has 3,500 cases on its docket, works too slowly. Under a fixed price plus incentive bonus contract, Boeing estimates that it saved the Air Force $23.2 million on B-47 bomber production in 1952 by producing lower than estimated prices. In doing so, it won itself an additional $5,800,000 profit. But last fall, three years later, the board decided that Boeing's 1952 profits of $54.5 million before taxes, on sales...
...office and the graduates. Emphasis in the letters lie on the academic rather than the athletic. Complaints and compliments are gratefully received and get a personal reply from McCord because he feels that "if a man cares enough about his college to give, he should feel free to complain or offer suggestion...
Members of the Council stated that the alternative recommendation had intentionally limited application since nothing had been established in the Thomson case. Under the recommendation, however, any student may complain directly to the Dean of "clandestine action...
Reactions to this pattern are mixed. Local residents seldom complain vigorously since the situation is essentially a response to residential needs. The citizen may complain that his city is changing for the worse, but before long he moves to a better one, leaving his home to those who have created the problem...