Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benito Mussolini, according to a report from the New York Times' crack Rome Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews, lost 50 pounds in the last nerve-racking month of his dictatorship. Source for the story was an Italian army doctor who treated Mussolini's ulcers, heard him complain: "The Italian people is a superficial people in every way, even in religion. They believe in a saint only when, and to the extent that he answers their prayers. . . . They cover themselves with a varnish that has no depth and leaves no trace...
...women with jobs, 3,500,000 of them in war industry. In a factory job which does not require strength, a contented woman worker can turn out half again as much work as a man. The rub: keeping the women contented. So prone are they to complain, get sick, ache, stay home, quit, that many a factory supervisor will be glad when his women are paid off for good...
...Then there is the war of homesick, weary, funny, violent, common men who wash their socks in their helmets, complain about the food, whistle at Arab girls, or any girls for that matter, and lug themselves through as dirty a business as the world has ever seen and do it with humor and dignity and courage-and that is Ernie Pyle's war. He knows it as well as anyone and writes about it better than anyone...
...Pays? Many oldtime oilmen are caustically critical of Hawley's ventures. They complain that he is spending "tax dollars," i.e., cash made on war contracts, which would otherwise be paid in as taxes to the Federal Government. They point out that with Northern Pump probably in the overall 80%-tax bracket, Hawley stands only one-fifth of the loss in dry holes and Uncle Sam foots the bill for the rest. And the 20% he puts into a dry hole can be charged off against taxable income. Even when Hawley strikes oil-and the company's income...
...Ethiopian Copts. At royal worship in Addis Ababa's octagonal Cathedral of St. George, the Emperor kisses the Egyptian's silk-draped silver cross. But the Abuna continually vexes the King of Kings and the proud Ethiopian court: he offends the country's growing nationalism. Ethiopians complain that he will not learn the Ethiopian dialects, makes no effort to understand the Ethiopian way of life...