Word: complain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current entry party system, which is attacked in the report as "a bit barbaric." The entry party is generally condemned by freshmen, because it requires the use of an entire entry and thus makes it impossible for anyone to study in the entry on party nights; some freshmen complain that the entry party puts undue pressure on some members of the entry to get dates, the report charges...
Tangled Tape. Most of the transplanted U.S. entrepreneurs do not claim to be making huge profits, and for all their love of the life they lead, many complain bitterly about the tangle of bureaucratic red tape and the unintelligible tax laws. German bureaucrats "sit in their little chairs and become little kings," says Expatriate Charles Immler, who runs a small office-cleaning business. "All the Germans bow to them, but I am not one who likes to scrape and bow." In Latin America, some expatriate Americans find that bill paying is as casual as the climate...
...child prodigy. His father, who was professor of Slavic languages at Harvard, took over the boy's early education, correcting each error with shouts of "Fool!", "Brute!", "Donkey!" Lessons often ended with the child in tears, the father raging so loudly that neighbors came to the door to complain...
...jobs that men seldom strive for. In fact, the new U.S. equal-pay law may cost women some of their jobs because-other things being equal-many companies prefer to hire men. Many women prove reluctant to take on heavy responsibility or to boss men on the job. Supervisors complain that they have a higher absenteeism rate than men-6.5 days a year v. five days-partly because men do not have babies. Some labor leaders are also cool to women workers; only 14% of them join unions, and those who do tend to vote down proposed pension plans. Predictably...
...living, while British workers grumbled loudly about its damage to their pay packets. In Italy, where the government has launched an unpopular austerity drive to halt rising prices, the man in the street has found a new scapegoat in la cara vita. And the French, who love to complain, moan relentlessly about la vie chere. In any language, inflation is Europe's foremost economic preoccupation-and the problem that most threatens its extended boom...