Word: complain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whispered something. "Whatever you say, honey," said Lady Bird, and the tour was on. There was a framed letter from one of Johnson's great-grandfathers to Sam Houston: "He was a Baptist preacher, and he was writing to renew a note at 8% interest and also to complain that his congregation was behind on pledges," and a picture of Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington. Lyndon quipped: "He's Lady Bird's boy friend...
...sound-deadening material under the radio or hi-fi set. "We recommend a waffle padding with a foam rubber back about two inches thick," says Austin Granat, technical consultant for Fisher Radio Corp. But few set owners bother to do anything about it unless the neighbors complain...
...closeness of marriage, is forced to decide whether she wants to "commit herself" to going seriously with one boy. The pressures to do so are great. For one thing, going steady can be an easy way to appear mature, because of its parallel with marriage. For another, girls complain that they date much less frequently in their second year than they did in their first. "Except for two girls, no one in my dorm goes out regularly," remarked one Moors sophomore. "It gets pretty depressing having to write papers on Saturday nights." Thus, a girl who is going with...
Predictably, retail sales dropped 5% in November's last two weeks as the nation mourned President Kennedy, and there was still the persistent problem of unemployment, which rose in November to 5.9% of the work force. But businessmen could find little cause to complain-and Washington did not seem in the mood to give them...
This "scrupulousness" was very important, according to Galbraith, in making it difficult for the Indian Communist Party to complain about American interference. Instead, they were left "the not particularly enchanting task" of explaining the actions of the Chinese...