Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only her best will be enough to win. It's hard work, but who can complain about spending spring vacation in Rome...
...sick and tired of hearing Linda Ronstadt complain about the priests and nuns who taught her. Having taught for 35 years myself and reading about some of the stunts she pulled in the classroom, I get the idea she was a pain...
...fellow heads of government to follow Washington's lead. One proposal being considered by the White House: to ask the other six for a pledge to cut their 1978 energy consumption by a set figure, perhaps 10%. Carter will run into some flak. The French, in particular, complain that the U.S.'s rising oil imports encourage the OPEC price boosts that hurt countries like France...
Jones refuses to express any bitterness about Grambling's second-string status, even joking over the years-for the benefit of white legislators-that they should support Grambling "because if you take out the r, then it's a sin." Nor does he complain about the competition of formerly all-white colleges for star black athletes. Says Jones: "They can get all the boys they want, but many were not gotten at all before." For Grambling, integration has meant an influx of white teachers, now about 30% of the faculty, but few white students (only about...
Even though I am not deeply involved in the Lampoon controversy to the extent that other blacks on campus are, I must say one thing. Blacks have the right to, because of this right should, and of necessity must, complain vigorously whenever an issue arises as to racial insensitivity. In this case, freedom of the press is one thing, but irrationality of the press here damages the very theory of harmony and unity among the members of this entire student body...