Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...electricity grid last year after Kalkilya's old generators broke down and there was no way to get new ones from Jordan. And laborers can now afford such luxuries as television sets and gas stoves. About the only ones who have not profited are the citrus growers, who complain that they are unable to compete with Israeli industries in the high wage market. "If we speak sharply to the workers," complains Mustafa Hussein Nazzal, Kalkilya's Arab mayor and a prominent orchard owner, "they quit and find jobs in Israel...
Enthusiasts say that it is intoxicating, detractors complain that it is monotonous. Both find it oddly difficult to describe. Paul Simon is the first white American to record reggae (Mother and Child Reunion), which he describes as having "a little New Orleans sound and that one-and-three feel. Or, you know, two-and-four-with no hit on the one-and-three ... It's hard to explain ... But I love...
...their daughter, Ruth Harcovitz fits the description Of Most Beautiful Woman in Spain. Her voice is quite charming, her screeches alarming--Of her eye-rolling, though, I complain...
...situation was deliberately set and ripe for overt trouble. The `revolutionary movement' was in part funded by Harvard College itself (which chose not to complain when college supplies were diverted to radical uses such as mimeograph paper and ink). Known communists were admitted as students to Radcliffe and Harvard, and the rest is history...
...rape crisis center are said to have scrawled "rapist" on a suspect's car, spray-painted the word in red across a front porch, and made late-night warning telephone calls. In Los Angeles, the squad has adopted a counter-harassing strategy: when a woman called to complain that a neighbor followed her whenever she went out, squad members followed the follower for three days. That was enough to make him change his ways...