Word: complained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Businessmen complain that while sales may be going up. profit margins are going down. But are overall profits for U.S. industry really dropping? See BUSINESS, The Profit Squeeze...
Institutional Pattern. Young Mayo did not know what was happening to him. He was lonely and cried a lot at first, but soon he learned to do as he was told, never to question or complain. When he was 15, a teacher noted: "Mayo does good work in school. Reads well and understands. Is doing long division and fractions. In drawing does quick and artistic work. Plays first violin in the orchestra." Though his mother visited the boy occasionally, it never occurred to her that he ought to leave the school. Neither did it occur to his brother and sister...
...shouldn't complain too much," she added quickly. "My husband is a Yalie, and we didn't know the situation in Cambridge. From what I hear, we were lucky to get within ten minutes' walk of the Square...
...Packard had stuck to his expressed purpose, there would not have been overly much to complain about in his book. But he did not write only an informative exploration, he made his book a sermon. He appears to be appalled obviously by these discoveries and techniques of the advertising age and seeks to instill this horror in his readers...
...Moslem friends. At the American University of Beirut and Beirut College for Women, modern young Moslem girl students wear blue jeans, go water skiing, do the rock 'n' roll, and behave just like U.S. coeds. But the past is still with them. Their fellow male students complain that they cannot get dates. "I just want somebody to take to the movies," said one student last week. "Would you marry a woman who had been to the movies with someone else?" asked a friend. The boy thought for a moment, and then replied: "Well, no. I guess I wouldn...