Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christian Democrats, led by Aldo Moro, 59, the perennially worried-looking five-time Premier, have the dubious advantage of incumbency. Alone or in coalitions, the Partito Democrazia Cristiana has dominated Italian politics since the end of World War II-to the point that some weary party leaders complain of being "doomed to govern." In the past, the D.C. has often won national elections because middle-class Italian voters who marked the hammer-and-sickle Communist emblem on ballots in local elections as a protest were too afraid to let the Communists come to power when it really mattered...
...Well, a few among the young voters," admitted Gelsomino, a bit annoyed at his friend's needling. "You should know that youths are impatient. Some of them complain that our line is only reformist. But as Lenin said, 'Extreme militancy is an infantile quality.' Of course, you have your problems too. The bishops' declaration ordering people to toe the line is going to hurt you more than it will help...
...years old. He later served with a combined U.S.-British group in London's Grosvenor Square ("Eisenhowerplatz"), and points out that transatlantic camaraderie had everything going against it, including the barrier of a common language. G.I.'s were startled to hear their girl friends complain that they had been "knocked up" (awakened) during the night. "Say, Honey, what do you do about sex over here?" inquired a hope ful Yank in County Antrim. "Oh," said the girl, "we do be havin' our tea about that time...
Southwestern recruits at over 600 colleges and universities across the United States. Perhaps 100,000 students are interviewed each year. Any time such huge numbers of people are exposed to anything, regardless of how good or bad it is, someone is inevitably going to be upset and want to complain. Mention "selling books door to door" and some people will be entirely turned off, regardless of how it is presented. At Harvard, mention "Southwestern," and negative reactions arise in the minds of many people who have never been exposed to more than the treatment given the program in the pages...
...There are maybe a dozen good newspapers in the country," Rosenthal told his fellow-journalists. "Most newspapers are bad simply because they are not printing enough news. Publishers are not spending enough money to gather the news. The consumer who would complain about watered milk doesn't complain about a watered newspaper...