Word: complained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the uncertainties and disappointments of last year, Humphrey is now surer than ever of himself and of Lyndon Johnson's confidence. He is totally and contentedly immersed in his job. He is unalterably committed to being himself. And if his advisers complain that this course can only damage his standing in public-opinion surveys, he has an answer: "Harry Truman was a great President, but I never noted his mystique. I did observe he had a lot of character. What is important are your convictions, character and commitments." Already, in the hyperactive second phase of his vice-presidency...
...their own letter, the Chinese found other secret Soviet slanders to complain about. "You wantonly vilified the Chinese Communist Party as being guilty of 'adventurism,' 'split-ism,' 'Trotskyism,' 'nationalism,' 'dogmatism' and so on and so forth. You have also been spreading rumors alleging that China 'is obstructing aid to Viet Nam.' You have gone so far as to state that 'China is not a Socialist country...
Despite their desperate need for U.S. investment, the Atlantic Council found, Europeans complain that the American investors' representatives often treat their hosts like cousins. U.S. cor porations are acutely aware of this complaint, and are indeed moving to mind their manners. With as much as half their sales now made outside the U.S., many large corporations have a growing tendency to think and act as global companies with world markets rather than as American companies doing business overseas...
Czechs and Poles complain in the COMECON council that they cannot get what they want in the Red Common Market, or that the goods they do get are shoddy, including East German trucks and salt-laden Soviet oil that burns out pipelines...
...ornate edifice studded with columns and fire escapes, the Driskill was built for another age. Reporters grumble about its rattling plumbing, roaring air conditioners and lack of a swimming pool. They also complain that the hotel, which is often overcrowded, continually shifts their briefing room. And most of the time in Austin, they find little to do but watch television...