Word: complain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lodge is popular with the people-in New Hampshire and elsewhere-he is less so with professional Republicans, many of whom complain about his seemingly haughty airs. The main cause of the G.O.P. defeat in 1960 was, of course, Nixon's performance in the debates; but many pros assign Lodge some of the blame too. Particularly irritating to them was his habit of napping each afternoon, regardless of the press of his schedule. Said Goldwater, in a slightly snide aside during last week's primary-night postmortem: "We can't beat the Democrats with...
...Students complain that unless they over-concentrate, they are at a disadvantage when they take senior Generals. These exams, designed to test general competence in the student's field, are often weighed very heavily in computing departmental honors...
...church funds only for projects that foster integration, such as unsegregated housing. This fall, 20,000 Catholic, Protestant and Jewish laymen in Houston will cooperate on a city-wide church census. Mutual concern for backsliders has tempered ecclesiastical competition somewhat. Undermanned Catholic dioceses in the Southwest no longer complain when Protestant missions minister to Mexican-Americans who may be Catholic by birth and baptism but not by any demonstrated devotions. Many local councils of churches are now planning carefully to avoid the organization of new Protestant congregations in small communities that can barely support the ones they already have...
...second excuse one hears is that no university, even Harvard, can be a repository for universal knowledge and that there is no reason to complain about a weakness in a particular field. It seems, however, that if Harvard can manage to be a repository for the intellectual History of Armenia, Fifth through Tenth Centuries (Armenia 166), it ought to be able to find one small niche for the Indian subcontinent. Daniel H. Saks...
...wants to slash almost all tariffs in half, but the Common Marketeers complain that such a cut would discriminate against them. Since their own external tariffs on average are already lower than the U.S.'s and Britain's (12% v. 18%), equal cuts of 50% would be much more severe for the Six than for the U.S. The Six have stubbornly held out for special treatment for their tariff "disparities." In cases where the Common Market tariffs are much smaller than the others, they want to reduce their own duties by 25%, while the U.S. and Britain drop...