Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems to complain. Wynn reports that most of those in the capital feel that the tenacity with which Egyptian forces defended their bridgeheads in Sinai during the first dozen days of the war reinforced the new sense of pride that Cairenes have felt since the army launched its surprise attack. One Cairo citizen told Wynn: "These new taxes and prices are backbreaking. But never mind. We are no longer under the heels of the Israelis." An Egyptian businessman who frequently travels to Britain admitted: "After the 1967 war I refused to go to London. I couldn't hold...
...these opportunities come to bad ends because Christian's outrage keeps breaking through his overcourteous exterior. He tells off brand-new widows who complain about their dead husbands' makeup. He is too quick with his fists, which are surprisingly effective. Yet Donleavy's New Yorkers are thorough professionals, blunt and disturbingly honest about their own illusions. Unfortunately, Donleavy is rather slippery about his own illusions. The city, he seems to be saying (especially when he pumps his prose full of Celtic twilight), is no place for a wandering Christian...
...unscrupulous operators have even been known to recruit willing mojados, load them into a waiting vehicle at $250 a head, and then renege on the contract by dumping them 15 miles north of the Mexican border for a tidy profit with no risk involved, since their victims can hardly complain to the police...
Arab nations complain to Moscow that the Soviet Jews contribute mightily to Israel's strength. In general, Moscow counters Arab arguments by saying that the numbers involved are relatively small, that the emigrants are of limited skills and that many more Jews have emigrated to Israel from Arab lands than from the U.S.S.R...
...majors" claim that they simply do not have enough gas to go round; the independents are certain that they do. They say the big companies are sitting on supplies in hopes of driving out the competition and pushing up the cost of their cheaper brands. Station operators also complain that while prices were held down at the pump, the COLC has permitted producers and wholesalers to raise the prices they charge the stations for wholesale gas. Those rises reflect increased costs of importing high-priced foreign...