Word: complain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needs a highly effective auto-insurance system that would compensate traffic victims rapidly, fairly and at reasonable cost to policyholders. But there is no question, either, that the U.S. auto-insurance system is a model of expensive inefficiency. The country's 103 million drivers have every reason to complain...
...flying a kite, they lead less of a life. We're moving along in a mold that will produce people I can't even imagine." Many parents, shuddering at the heavy dose of violence on the screen, foresee a generation of juvenile delinquents. TV heroes, they complain, do not merely administer justice, they annihilate their enemies with cheerful abandon. The bulk of research, however, concludes that TV by itself is rarely a cause of crime or aggression; it can be a contributing factor, but only in the case of a child who is already disturbed...
...other pro players complain that helmets are hot and cumbersome. What's more, says ex-Chicago Coach Johnny Gottselig: "A guy wearing a helmet invites attention. Players are apt to give him a few extra raps on the skull, figuring they won't hurt...
...continent-wide revolution in Latin America. Cuba's relations with its Russian allies are at their lowest point since the 1962 missile crisis. The economy is a shambles. Perhaps most serious, there is a new mood of frustration abroad in the land. "If the people could just complain," says Jacinto Cabal'ero, a Cuban exile newly arrived in Miami, "it would be a lot easier. But you can't even say the soap is lousy, because the revolution makes the soap, and therefore you are criticizing the revolution, which is forbidden...
...week, often while en route between engagements. One of the solutions he worked out was to conduct staging rehearsals of an operatic score while studying an orchestral score that was placed on the floor next to him. This learn-as-you-go method inevitably involves some lapses-singers, particularly, complain that Mehta occasionally drops cues-and it tends to make for slightly ragged first performances, which are smoothed out with repetition...