Word: complained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never heard him complain. I never heard him say anything which would indicate that he felt that God had dealt with him unjustly. Those who knew him well would know he was suffering only because his face was a little whiter, the lines around his eyes a little deeper, his words a little sharper...
Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, Presidential Economist Walter Heller and M.I.T. Economist Paul Samuelson lately have taken up the argument that Martin and his colleagues unwisely tightened money before the last recession. Attacking the system's penchant for secrecy, such Democrats as Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire complain that trying to find out why and how the Federal Reserve makes its decisions is like "trying to paste a custard pie on a wall." To make the Federal Reserve more dependent upon the President and upon Congress' easy-money advocates, Patman is sponsoring bills that would: >End its authority...
Since De Gaulle's return to power in 1958, the diplomats have become humbly aware that he was right and they were wrong. And he has had little to complain of since Couve de Murville moved into the Quai d'Orsay to help dispense the classic diplomacy that is both the invention and one of the glories of France. The tone and tradition were set by Cardinal Richelieu in the 17th century, when he served as Foreign Minister (and, later, Chief Minister) to King Louis XIII, and was the first to formulate such diplomatic axioms...
...combined with vowels (which are placed so that they don't register) to translate any combination of digits into an easily remembered phrase. Thus the number of the CIA-351-1100-becomes AH ME, CUBA BAY, OY. The New Yorker who wants to call A.T. & T. to complain about all-digit dialing dials GO WAG A WET YOYO...
Though some corporate executives still complain that profit margins are not all that they should be, the flood of earnings clearly marked the end of the profit squeeze that U.S. industry has suffered for nearly a decade. Reason: already high consumer demand continued to grow strongly, while companies, aided by new computers, automation and sharper cost control, were able to hold down production costs. Says General Motors' Chairman Frederic Donner: "Rising industrial production, employment and consumer income engendered a high level of consumer and business confidence. 1963 was a good year for the economy, a fine year...