Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems a bit graceless to complain at this stage (his 41st year, his 19th book) about a writer as gifted and giving as John Updike. He has produced a body of writing whose size and consistent high quality are unapproached by the work of any American writer near his age, except Norman Mailer. It is hard to imagine how John Updike could have managed the business of being John Updike any more faithfully...
Meals on the chartered 727 Dakota Queen II are served without lettuce; McGovern supports the lettuce boycott. Sometimes the schedule is hectic. The candidate himself is often overlooked. Reporters complain that they have not enough time to file their stories. Aboard the Dakota Queen II there is greater informality, and each day has a quality of surprise that is not evident on the Nixon tour...
Americans who complain about the high cost of living can take some solace by looking at Western Europe. There, prices are rising almost twice as fast as in the U.S. Like a pernicious plague, inflation infests the whole Continent; it is damaging living standards and shaking governments. The annual rate of rise so far this year averages 6% in the Common Market, and in Spain is leaping at an incredible rate of 1% a month. The cost of food is particularly oppressive. Parmesan cheese is up 17% in Italy, beef has risen 19% in The Netherlands, potatoes have jumped...
...expect that things will settle down." C.Graham Hurlburt. Jr., director of the Food Services Department said yesterday as some students continued to complain about crowding...
EVEN in good times many farmers like to complain. In Bakersfield, Calif., Joe Garone looked out over his 2,800 acres rich with cattle and cotton and said: "It used to be that we had three major problems-weather, pests and markets. Now we've got one that's even bigger-Government interference." In the midst of the nation's harvest this week, Garone and the other 2.9 million American farm owners have scant reason to worry about any of those problems-least of all the openhanded Federal Government. The 1972 crop should show the most bountiful...