Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...farmers were protesting their discontent with rising inflation, falling income and the government's refusal to make fundamental reforms. Fruit growers complain that they get only 9? for a pound of peaches that sells for 40? to 60? at the retail level. Farmers charge that the cost of a tractor less than 30 years ago was equivalent to the selling price of six hogs; now it equals 100. The purchasing power of the French peasant, it is estimated, will shrink 17% this year alone-while government policy permits massive imports of competing foreign meats, fruits and vegetables...
Last year Boys Town put up $40 million for the study of juvenile problems and the training of youth workers. Conservative Boys Town patrons soon began to complain that the board was spending money merely for the sake of spending it. Moreover, many alumni feared that the new emphasis on physical and emotional problems might smudge Boys Town's reputation as a community of healthy, normal boys. Declared The Wanderer, a conservative Catholic journal: "Boys Town is dead...
...approaching Kyrenia and pilots were manning their planes. With Turkish passions for action running so high, Ecevit was certain that his government would fall if it backed down. Moreover he sensed that no country was eager to recognize Sampson as President of Cyprus and thus no major power would complain too much if Sampson was toppled...
Those women who do seek leadership positions run into obstacles that are either unknown to men or thrown up by men. Female politicians complain that they have a far harder time raising funds than their male counterparts; many of them favor public financing of campaigns. Says Jean Marie Maher, a political consultant in California, "While contributors might write a check for $500 or $1,000 for a man, if the candidate is a woman, they write a check for $100." A Harvard Business Review study shows that male executives are more apt to discipline women for minor infractions than...
...which changes their once passionless existences into lives of all-consuming passion. The fervor of the love-making during their secret trysts is adolescent, almost humorous, in quality. Their desire for each other and the escape which their romance represents become uncontrollable. Like most people in their position they complain about having to sneak around, and console each other in their matrimonial misery. Unlike most people, though, they decide to release themselves from their bondage. Their means are incredibly simple: Piccoli poisons his infirmed wife and conspires with his lover to beat her husband to death during a midnight trip...