Word: complained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spending has soared by 45%. The continuing troubles of the pound led him to change panaceas in mid-crisis. The switch to classic austerity was supposed to give Britain time to rid itself of such long entrenched weaknesses as industrial inefficiency, featherbedding unions, drowsy management and overstaffed business. Instead, complain businessmen, government tinkering has proved so inept as to create new economic distortions. When Royal Dutch/Shell decided to build a new refinery at Teeside in Yorkshire, the government rebated 45% of the cost be cause it lay in a depressed region. On top of that, notes a Shell managing director...
John Holme (1686) Hunters like to dream of what it must have been like in the old days, when herds of buffalo grazed the Western plains, when virgin glades were thick with elk and wild fowl. Game, they complain, is disappearing in the face of pollution, deforestation-and competition from the 17,999,999 other Nim-rods out there blazing away...
...than 40% of the U.A.W.'s 1,500,000 members are under 30, whereas Reuther turns 60 on Sept. 1. He is having particular trouble with the 200,000 U.A.W. skilled tradesmen, who long for the 13% wage increases that building tradesmen are getting in some cities and complain that Reuther has debased their "dignity" by paying more attention to the needs of ordinary production workers. Reuther has promised to "go to the mat" for at least one of their demands-that auto companies end the practice of contracting work to outside shops. But he also denounced...
...those who feel that the President is pursuing a "no-win" policy, the Administration points out that total victory is not the aim of this war. While there are highly placed military men who privately complain about the restrictions under which the war is being fought, some of the strongest supporters of Lyndon Johnson's gradual approach to the war are the generals and admirals themselves. In the four years of the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln ran through seven commanding generals; William Childs Westmoreland, after three years, is only the second American commander in Viet...
...Angeles Symphony Orchestra-have stayed away. Some of Athens' theater audiences are peppered with relatives of army officers who get free tickets to keep the attendance up. Even so, the censors are vigilant. In a play in Athens, an actor drew unexpected applause when he recited, "I shall complain to my Deputy in Parliament." Censors snipped out the line before the next performance. In another play, a woman whose husband had left her joyfully cried: "Now I am free!" The audience cheered. The line was quickly changed to "Now I am carefree...