Word: complained
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...Right leaders and organizations. The poll found widespread agreement with each statement. There was 73% approval of the idea that "we must build up our military strength so that we are clearly No. 1 and use this strength whenever necessary for our national interests, even if other nations complain." Nearly the same number (71%) agreed that "the Supreme Court and Congress have gone too far in keeping religious and moral values like prayer out of our laws, our schools and our lives." There was 70% agreement that "the government has become far too involved in areas of people...
...Pope's injuries, inadvertently showed a diagram of the female anatomy. There were some lapses in taste as well, though the most flagrant came from the public. Like sitcom and sports fans in earlier news crises, hundreds of viewers jammed TV station switchboards across the country to complain that their afternoon soap operas were interrupted. -By Janice Castro. Reported by Peter Ainslie and Robert Celine/New York, with other bureaus
...course, some people are bound to complain about the length of time golfers take to disappear, namely the "Golf Widows," those women who are abandoned every weekend by their spouses. But that problem isn't limited to golf. Remember Xiomara...
...could be argued that 400 years is too long a period, that somehow the buzzer has sounded on the Irish, that they've exceeded the time limit for being oppressed without winning, and hence forfeited the right to complain. But if you're going to argue that, you'd better not say that Israel should exist as an independent Jewish state because of its historical ties to the piece of property it now inhabits. The threshold is hard to define. The Afrikaners have controlled South Africa for quite a while. Does that legitimize the pass system and the denial...
...dead, but it is weaker now. The psychology of work is much changed in America. The acute, painful memory of the Great Depression used to enforce a disciplined and occasionally docile approach to work-in much the way that older citizens in the Soviet Union do not complain about scarce food and overpopulated apartments, because they remember how much more horrible everything was during the war. But the generation of the Depression is retiring and dying off, and today's younger workers, though sometimes laid off and kicked around by recessions and inflation, still do not keep in dark...