Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seen their livelihood collapse and their savings eroded by inflation. "We've sold our refrigerator, our sitting-room chairs, our beds," said a young man in a juice shop. "Now my family is sleeping on the floor." Nowhere is the agony more visible than in the hospitals, where doctors complain about shortages of basic drugs and syringes. At a children's hospital outside the city of Karbala, southwest of Baghdad, the sweltering, fly-infested wards are jammed with youngsters suffering from diarrhea and dehydration. "I've already lost two children, and now I am about to lose another one," said...
...news, but he suffers from chronic ambivalence, a weakness of conviction so severe that when discussing their grim future, Prior bemoans, "I wind up comforting you. As Prior's affliction confines him increasingly to be and eventually to a hospital, Louis gets skittish and leaves him, largely to complain to everyone else about his own suffering...
...said her efforts to complain were ignored by members of the media. "When I tried to talk to someone in charge, there would never be anyone to talk to," she said...
Students often complain that they are dissatisfied with their long-distance rates, but Kinchla says that the HSTO's plan is the least expensive option...
...When Italians get hungry, they complain, and they were loud and obnoxious in their heavy Brooklyn accents," she says...