Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reply, an underground Solidarity group in Silesia published a sort of manual of passive protest. Samples: "In organizing strikes, do not elect leaders, so as to avoid later police action. Work slowly, complain about the mess and the inefficiency of your superiors. Flood the army and the commissars with questions and pretend to be a halfwit. Follow meticulously the most ridiculous instructions." Every worker, it concluded, should remember these words: "I know only what I need to know." Nobody outside Poland knows to what extent these opposition efforts are succeeding, but even the government admitted last week that production...
Coming-out parties are like weddings: parents seem to enjoy them as much as their children. "It's the one time of year when wives spend their husbands' money, and the men can't complain," Mr. Martin explains. And the bills are not inconsequential. Estimates vary wildly, but a first-class debutante ball starts at close to $50,000 and can run into hundreds of thousands. Some fathers take it better than others. Tom England, whose daughter Kyle, 22, made her debut a week before Mimi, has a secret survival tactic: "Drink...
Some rival St. Louis bankers complain, though, that Long is merely a "publicity hound" who can easily afford to slash the prime rate because Southwest has few commercial borrowers paying the low level of interest. Business lending amounts to only about 11% of Southwest's credit portfolio. The bank specializes in mortgage and installment loans to customers in its immediate, largely Italian, neighborhood...
...taste for more recent vintages may find them in the pages of Man Bites Man, Two Decades of Satiric Art (A & W; 224 pages; $29.95) edited by Steven Heller. Although a few illustrations are pure character assassination, most are lampoons of contemporary trends. Gahan Wilson's Senators complain about environmentalists through gas masks; Ronald Searle's bird finds the sky too crowded and decides to walk; Bill Lee's pilgrims beg heaven for a sign and are rewarded with one: WELCOME TO THE NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE...
College basketball coaches worry and sometimes complain about the practice of publishing betting lines so blithely. Angrily, Indiana's Bobby Knight likens it to listing the phone numbers of prostitutes...