Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to find patients at St. Christopher's who will complain about the lack of honesty when they were in the hospital. Or of the suffering because medication was only given when the pain became too enormous to bear. Or of the indignities forced on the dying. "I saw a man die full of wires and plugs and little bleeping things," says Cancer Patient Ted Hughes, 56. "He was treated like an embarrassment and put in a side room with curtains around his bed." By comparison, says Patient Phyllis Sadler, 87, "I am looked after with such love and kindness...
...been known to be somewhat less tender: often brusque and occasionally imperious. Dr. Anthony Smith, who trained at St. Christopher's and is now medical director of a hospice north of London, recalls that an interview with Dame Cicely was "like going to the headmaster's study." Others complain that she has been slow to adapt to new needs, particularly the admission of AIDS patients. "She simply wouldn't allow an AIDS patient to breathe on St. Christopher's," says one observer. Her views have changed, but she still insists that any AIDS patients admitted must also be suffering from...
...first time it happened, the couple was arguing over a plate of undercooked eggs. When her boyfriend continued to complain about her culinary skills, Sue, a 32-year-old New York City artist, started to cry. "He couldn't handle it," she recalls. "He grabbed me and shoved me. I was really frightened, and I hit him with my fist." After that, their life together got worse. "His temper escalated. He'd grab my arms and hold me down, or throw things at me: tennis shoes, magazines, a book." She finally walked out, too humiliated to reveal the reason...
...Republican strategy is to keep Dukakis on the defensive by attempting to shatter his sphinxlike composure. Republicans complain that Dukakis is hiding his liberal record behind a vague platform. If the G.O.P. can keep up the pressure, explains a Bush strategist, "you may just see a Michael Dukakis you don't like. He is talking in nice pictures under false pretenses, and we're not going to let him get away with that." Moreover, Bush must overcome a negative image with a third or more of the electorate -- and what better way than to stick Dukakis with some negatives...
Until now, Israel has relied on reconnaissance aircraft and high-tech drones for its intelligence. In addition, since Arab forces took Israel by surprise in the 1973 October War, the U.S. has provided Jerusalem with top-secret satellite information to help meet its defense needs. But the Israelis complain that U.S. officials "filter" the information, omitting data that Washington deems irrelevant. The Israelis also grumble that they receive the data too late. Israel regularly petitions the U.S. for its own ground links to American satellites, but Washington refuses. Supporters of Israel blame America's stinginess with its data for Israel...