Word: complained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, some Southerners are afraid that this formula may prove too little and too late. Southerners complain that there are too many "whole hog or nothing" Negroes. This is only partly true. No Southern Negro seriously wants or expects complete equality overnight. But all Southern Negroes want it as an ultimate goal?and they want to see faster progress towards that goal. They have become suspicious of "gradualism." They want to know, as one Negro leader puts it: "When does Old Man Gradualism run out?" The Southern Negro's mood may be summed up by the case of the successful...
Both Sir Alexander Fleming and the penicillin he discovered have recently come in for some unkind words. In Britain, critics complain that Fleming got a bigger share than he deserved of the credit for penicillin-that more should have gone to Sir Howard Florey and Dr. Ernst Chain, who first took it out of the lab and put it into a patient. In the U.S., doctors say that strains of bacteria resistant to penicillin are emerging everywhere, and that these may breed diseases from which penicillin can give no relief...
...said, "The only group which might want to complain to the Dean's Office is Ivy Films, because it feels it has been competed with and it has not done as well this spring as it has previously done. Ivy feels that it has an exclusive right to show films here. This is a lot of hooey. Because Ivy has refused to consider itself on equal standing with other film groups in dealing with Dean Watson, it is out for itself...
Some of East Germany's critics found a few things to complain about, e.g., in a picture of four Stakhanovites, it was not made clear which was the foreman. But most sang hosannas over the show, wrote that it had produced "an art which will not only be understood but loved for its realism." And just so there would be no mistake, Red Premier Otto Grotewohl spelled it out. "The government," he said, "demands that the artist make his works a mirror of the nation...
...Best Actor division there is a real dilemma. No one can complain if either Marlon Brando (Viva Zapata), or Gary Cooper (High Noon), wins. But if the Academy falls back on Jose Farrier because he is famous, influential, and a high-brow actor, it will be chopping up the last remnant of its already tattered prestige...