Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wm.S. Carroll #512," you see, is the verbal-digital designation of a yellow, butt-bruising school bus. Hardly the Greyhound luxury-cruise type that the hotshots of the campaign press corps deign to ride in and complain about, but then again, the hotshots aren't riding Jimmy Carter's band-wagon--yet. Whether they will be come May and the second onslaught of state primaries was something I wanted to try to find out. But more than wanting to ruminate over darkhorse Jimmy Carter's staying power as a candidate for President in 1976, on a cold night two weeks...
...admitted that 1,200 Cuban combat troops had arrived. They will reinforce an estimated 1,000 soldiers and 700 advisers Cuba had previously sent to Neto. The M.P.L.A.'S main problem, reports Griggs, seems to be poor tactics and troop discipline. Cuban advisers assigned to the southern front complain that they have been stranded in unfamiliar territory when M.P.L.A. units broke and ran under fire...
Purists might complain that Hester Street presents an inaccurate picture of New York Jewish ghettoes at the turn of the century. This is true, but immaterial. According to this film, no one lived in squalor, and the worst aspect of the sweatshops was an occasional snide comment from the boss. The photographer Jacob Riis, who depicted the terrible conditions of living in New York's Jewish ghetto at the turn of the century, would have been horrified by the distortion in this film. But rather than a scathing social portrait of the era, Silver has set out to create...
...when people feel safe in the Zone. The men aren't particularly discriminating. They seem to be interested in the simplistic tomes on Hitler and Toshiro, sensational descriptions of sodomy and pederasty, and devices for simulating sex when a complete partner isn't handy. They don't even complain when the peep shows they expected to see for a single quarter stop abruptly midway through the reel. The women who venture in tend to buy vibrators...
...situation won't change under a forced-assignment plan; students are intelligent enough and free enough from the tyranny of peer pressure to realize that under a Yale plan differences between the Houses will be the same as they are now. It is inconceivable that the people who now complain about living at the Quad will, after being forced there at the beginning rather than the end of freshman year, be completely happy with...