Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free of problems. The standing and waiting of 13 years ago has been replaced by sitting and waiting at the walk-in clinic today. The overcrowding is especially serious in psychiatry, where students complain they have to wait months for an appointment...
Numerous students complain that although the walk-in clinic looks efficient enough, once you have had your initial interview, it often takes weeks before an appointment slot is open. One student recounted how when he went to UHS and asked for a psychiatrist, he was immediately shuttled off into a little room where a doctor asked him if he had ever contemplated suicide. Once having convinced the doctor that he was not suicidal, he was issued three tranquilizers and sent away. After waiting two weeks for an appointment he found a private psychiatrist outside of the Health Center...
Still in the 1800s. At earlier meetings, Johnson's flying squad heard Maryland officials complain about book-thick federal regulations, going into such "ridiculous" detail as one by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare demanding that nursing homes have doors exactly 4 ft. 2 in. wide. In Kansas, Superintendent of Motor Vehicles L. A. Billings railed against a flood of complicated directives on highway safety: "We have your 13 directives-any one of which would take five years to implement. And you want us to tell you how we'll meet them in one month...
...fielders bemoan the weird bounces from grounders skidding along the infield and the batters complain that they can't see the dirty spheres when they come whirling out of the pitchers' grubby sleeves, but this year the team to a man exudes a tough confidence that transcends the gloom of the Cage...
Even when aging structures are replaced by ultramodern schools, minority groups continue to complain. Last fall, the school board formally opened the all-new, air-conditioned Intermediate School 201 in East Harlem, which featured a low teacher-student ratio and special tutorial help. Outraged that it was not fully integrated, Negro neighborhood leaders ordered a boycott, kept it closed for five days, demanded that the board provide an all-Negro teaching staff. Since then, unruly students have reflected their parents' pique by disrupting classes, committing wanton acts of vandalism. This month, the embattled white principal, Stanley R. Lisser, quit...