Word: complain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force, which becomes mightier and mightier." Yet from North Viet Nam, since Geneva, about 450,000 Vietnamese have escaped through chinks in the new Viet Minh monolith, leaving the antiseptic tyranny of Uncle Ho for the South's cha otic freedom. The articulate among these huddles of refugees complain that the Viet Minh has destroyed the customs and friendlinesses of the past, and has spat upon family ties and religion...
...Lines' flight from London lined up at the room-clerk's window in Montreal's fashionable Windsor Hotel. The first three quickly got rooms. But when the fourth man, a Negro, stepped forward, the room clerk began to fumble with the registry cards and to complain that the airline had mixed up the reservations. He did not say that he had no rooms, but he finally handed the Negro a slip of paper with the address of a cheaper hotel and told him to go there...
...dividend to its 1,133 stockholders. Though profits this year should jump past the $800,000 mark with revenues of nearly $5,000,000, the company will plow 50% of its income back into research, use the rest for other projects. Morse's stockholders are not likely to complain. Since 1940, National Research's original 1,000 shares have been split 150 times. The stock now sells at $23.50 a share, making an original $1 investment worth $3,525 on the open market...
...Pakistan is arid and Middle Eastern: its people eat wheat, speak Punjabi or Urdu, and supply most of the tough manpower for Pakistan's 250,000-man army and for its permanent civil service. East Pakistan is lush and Southeast Asian: its people eat rice, speak Bengali, and complain that they do not have the influence at Karachi to which their preponderant numbers entitle them. In local elections last March, the East Pakistanis rejected the national Moslem League leadership so thoroughly that the newly elected officials were thrust aside and military rule was imposed from Karachi...
Some thrive and others want to get out on the open road. The majority of students complain that the no car restriction isolates them from New York and Philadelphia. They feel the requirement of compulsory Chapel or Church every other week is tampering with their religious freedom. And many think the University is childish to force women out of their rooms...