Word: complained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government's explanation of why we allowed the gas to be used has been a model of confusion," said Hoffmann. "Saying that 'it is not very effective, so why should anybody complain?" makes me wonder," he continued, "why we should...
...reviewer of my film Nine Days of a Year [Jan. 15] says that the characters in Soviet films "are frankly bourgeois." Does he see bourgeois signs in the fact that the characters are well-dressed, go to restaurants, drive cars, freely express their opinions, live in modern apartments, and complain about "administrative fools"? This is a curious kind of logic! It reminds me of a capitalist who came to Moscow from his Eastern country, unfortunately a backward country. "You call this socialism?" said the man. "In my country we have real socialism, for three-fourths of our population go barefoot...
...widening arms gap has caused the Turkish Cypriots to complain loudly to Ankara, which in turn has protested violently to the United Nations and anyone else who will listen. And of late the sound of gunfire is being heard once again in the island's isolated villages. Early last month shooting resumed at Famagusta. On Feb. 19 a Turkish Cypriot woodsman was killed near Kokkina. When there was a flurry of gunfire last week at Ambelikou, a tiny Turkish Cypriot village near the town of Lefka, Ankara responded with a roar of anger. A naval flotilla of 35 vessels...
Mississippi Bishop Coadjutor John Maury Allin did not oppose the repeal of the December ruling, but he did complain that Episcopal civil rights activists who came to Mississippi paid no attention to his views. "We are an Episcopal Church. The December resolution was an expression of trust in the bishops," said Allin. Chicago Bishop Gerald F. Burrill agreed. "The bishop of any diocese should be consulted prior to any action that concerns his diocese," he said...
...value of silver has a lot to do with the shortage. The U.S. has fixed silver at $1.29 an ounce-the same price that Alexander Hamilton set for it in 1792-but miners complain that the sum is too low to pay for the slow, costly process of digging and refining it. Because of this economic disparity, the U.S. has only four important silver mines in operation, gets most of its supply as a byproduct of other metals. Last year the U.S. mined only one-ninth as much as the 323 million ounces of silver that it consumed, made...