Word: complained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economy measure. (Retorted Le Corbusier: "What do grocers and peasants know of the work I am doing?") Chandigarhians protest that the plan of the city, built from the periphery inward, leaves too great distances between the buildings. While Le Corbusier is not personally designing the housing, residents complain that his plan results in a built-in caste system, with income groups divided block by block and identified by the color of their water cisterns. Another objection: the plan makes no provision for that old Indian custom of keeping a buffalo around the house...
ARTHUR WILLIAM CAMMER is a Los Angeles salesman of low-priced garden and patio furniture, whose orders this year are three to four times better than last. The fact only moves Salesman Cammer to complain: "My suppliers have become so panicky over the news of bad business that they can't ship my orders when I need them." Of such paradoxes is 1958's recession made, and rarely did they show more clearly than last week. The price of aluminum was cut, partly because of slow consumption, but the price of oil stayed up, despite huge excess supplies...
...framework law' for Algeria is a joke-and a pretty grim one at that. To a people who complain of being under the thumb of three prefects from Paris, what do we do? We send them 15 more prefects. A lot of happiness we can expect from that...
...defendant even then. But as it turned out, Judge English did not object when the Omaha World-Herald quietly photographed Defendant George D. Jones in the courtroom during recesses, or when TV cameras caught him from the corridor while the trial was actually in session. Nor did Judge English complain when TV and World-Herald cameramen whirled and clicked while the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. But 60 miles away in Lincoln, State Attorney General Clarence S. Beck watched a TV film of the scene and exploded ("There was the clerk...
...cluster of homes has one householder who is regarded as the pacesetter of the neighborhood. Negotiator's rule of thumb: find the key man, sign him and his neighbors will follow suit. But property owners have their code too. Few ever admit to satisfaction with the appraisal; all complain, often with justification, that intangibles are involved that the state never takes into consideration...