Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Citizens of Communist states are well aware that their rulers give only lip service to Marxism's egalitarian ideals. But all they can do is complain and joke. One popular story in the Soviet Union tells of Party Boss Brezhnev inviting his mother to his elegant villa in the Crimea. He shows her the lavish furnishings, his yachts, art treasures and the fleet of foreign cars he has received as gifts from visiting heads of state. After a table-groaning banquet, he asks: "Well, Mama, what do you think? Not bad for your little boy?" To which the old woman...
Begin had even more to complain about when the Carter Administration announced its long awaited "package" proposal for the sale of aircraft to Egypt. Saudi Arabia and Israel. According to the plan, Egypt will be permitted to buy 50 F-5E short-range fighter-bombers-its first warplanes from the U.S.-at a cost of $400 million; Saudi Arabia will be allowed to buy 60 of one of the world's most sophisticated fighters, the F-15, at a cost of $2.5 billion, to replace its aging fleet of British Lightning jets; and Israel will be permitted...
...consulting on scripts for the BBC, which has just begun to air a series based on his work. With it all, Herriot, a pseudonym for James Alfred Wight, still makes barnyard calls six days a week and performs surgery in the middle of the night. "I complain about my work but if I didn't do it, I'd go to seed," he says. So devoted is Herriot to his profession that he is putting off starting his latest book until the end of April. Shrugs Dr. Jim: "We're lambing...
...found in the pituitary gland may have that effect. The remarkable mnemonic is vasopressin, which was previously known to help regulate the body's water content. The levels of vasopressin in the blood appear to decrease after about the age of 50, just when many people begin to complain of failing memories...
DURING THE PAST MONTH, Jimmy Carter has been the target of harsh criticism from both the left and the right. The critics generally complain that the president has done either too little or too much; that Carter has reneged on campaign promises or that he has unrealistically tried to keep too many; that he has not restored that elusive chimera called "business confidence" or that he has a misplaced faith in the private sector; that Carter quickly became a Washington "insider" practicing the "old politics," or that he is still politically naive and on dangerously bad terms with Congress because...