Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vice president and director of Thomson McKinnon Securities: "Being on a board is the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Women get on boards because they have already been on boards." Added another candidate, Ellen Berland Sachar, 37, a vice president and security analyst with Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "People complain that there is not a large enough pool of available women. We are saying that there is another generation of women coming up that corporate executives should be aware...
This may explain why such crafty old twirlers as Ring Lardner, James Thurber, Damon Runyon and P.G. Wodehouse spun tales about the sport. Usually they played it for laughs. Lardner's Alibi Ike dealt with a peculiar rookie, using comic vernacular: "I've heard infielders complain of a sore arm after heavin' one into the stand, and I've saw outfielders tooken sick with a dizzy spell when they've misjudged a fly ball. But this baby can't even go to bed without apologizin', and I bet he excuses himself...
...People are mad because they don't understand the system," Bloch believes. "The old and the poor do not understand why they should pay anything to anyone. Retired people complain about paying taxes on interest income. Middle-income people feel that they are grossly overtaxed because Government programs are aimed at aiding lower-income people...
...only in the spring and summer. Winters, the Monkey Man would disappear. In 1972 an envious beggar told a newspaper that Bernstein was rich (he was reputed to make up to $150 a day) and had invested his wealth in Florida real estate. Bernstein rushed to the newspaper to complain. "If I had money and property," he protested, "do you think I'd be sitting out in the cold...
There is no doubt the squad was in top-notch condition. There is also little room to complain about an 11-2 head-to-head record and a third-slotted national ranking, especially given the won-lost marks of most Harvard teams this winter...