Word: complained
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...mediateur, as the ombudsman is called, will be assisted by a dozen high-ranking civil servants, who are, of course, bureaucrats. Unlike the Swedes or Norwegians, who can complain directly to their ombudsmen, Frenchmen who feel mistreated by their government will find a wall of nearly 1,000 Deputies and Senators between them and their mediateur. These politicians will pass complaints to the ombudsman only if they consider them worthy of his attention. Not surprisingly, the arrangement does not please the politicians, one of whom grumped that the new post was "turning us into letter boxes...
...eagerly, some nervously, of rejoining their wives. "There's a lot of catching up to do," one airman notes. When two soldiers in fatigues finally enter the room to announce that military buses are ready to take them to their planes, the troops line up quietly. A few complain softly as a lone servicewoman is invited to move up to the head of the line. Walking out, another airman offers a cynical farewell: "Well, this is our last hour in the great Republic of Viet...
...from him. Sighed he: "Ironically, I had to leave New York and come to Oxford to get robbed." After his comments kicked up a transatlantic furor, Auden, anxious to regain some measure of privacy, hastened to add, "I have a nice little nook in college, so why should I complain...
...Police complain that they get no support, but they are enforcing unpopular laws. They are not qualified by either education or training to be symbols of the laws which the community upholds," she said...
Some deacons complain that parish priests see them as "unpaid janitors." Some priests, for their part, resent the fact that a few deacons wear the Roman collar, a practice that local diaconate program directors would like to stop. More important, there is increasing pressure from women to be ordained as deacons, as they are in the Episcopal Church.* Though there are no theological obstacles to such a move-indeed, there seems to be precedent for it among early Christians-Rome is likely to yield only slowly to the concept...