Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wake up, Americans! My great, great, great Indian grandfathers did not complain or bellyache when they first met the white man at Plymouth Rock...
...long, long hockey and basketball seasons finally wind down with championship play-offs between the Philadelphia Flyers and Buffalo Sabres on melting ice, and the Washington Bullets and Golden State Warriors on overheated courts. If the action is anywhere near as dramatic as the semifinal rounds, few fans will complain about delaying the season's first trip to the beach...
...illegals come to the U.S. with hopes of economic betterment, but once they arrive many discover that they can expect to have a hard time. Unable to complain to authorities, aliens working as domestics, farm hands, restaurant employees or garmentmakers often must tolerate meager wages in return for the tasks they perform and sweatshop conditions on the job. Says a young Greek who jumped ship seven years ago: "We don't take jobs away from the Americans. Greeks wash dishes in restaurants for $100 a week. Americans won't do that." Yet in March, when the INS rounded...
Being visible does not help the scientists' research careers. Other scientists see them, Goodell says, "as a pollution in the scientific community," as publicity grabbers who depart from normal scientific channels to communicate their views. These critics complain that their better publicized colleagues may mislead the public because they often speak outside their area of expertise. Biologist George Wald, a Nobel Laureate and vociferous antiwar spokesman, disagrees. "If the scientist is good," he says, "his field is reality, and that covers an awful lot of ground. I think that the scientist can be that rare, disinterested person who calls...
...full of money. Later at dinner, he said that 'if you take money from the capitalists, you have to work for them. Then you're a traitor to the people because the capitalists are the enemies of the people.' After that, businessmen would complain, 'No matter how we approach your brother, we get nowhere. He's hopeless. He'll never get anywhere in this government...