Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is one thing that freshmen can get easily it is advice; the Dean's Office believes that there is no excuse for those who complain that Harvard is large and impersonal. Freshmen have proctors who live closeby, advisers who are equally available, the Freshman Dean's Office which is inhabited by a group of understanding secretaries and counselors, and the Bureau of Study Counsel near the Yard. There is also the University Health Services Psychiatric Section, which is frequented at some point by one-fourth of the students; it has become a counseling service for all personal problems...
...cautious, self-constricted man that I delight in actions that will disturb him." Concludes Galbraith: "The State Department has a sense of tradition. It believes that because we had a poor foreign policy under Truman and Eisenhower, we should have a poor one under Kennedy. No one can complain about that...
These Soviet instructors have no operational control, but their key positions provide Moscow with daily intelligence on Egyptian military movements and preparedness-which Russia disastrously miscalculated in 1967. Egyptian officers complain that their Russian advisers are aloof and overbearing, work them too hard, and do not teach enough mobile warfare. According to the official slogan, Egyptian-Soviet friendship is "loftier than the Aswan Dam and more solid than the Pyramids." In fact, the relationship is pragmatic rather than cordial. Even during construction at Aswan where 3,000 Soviet engineers lived and worked shoulder to shoulder with Egyptians, few friendships developed...
...usually not published). The intimacy of the association depends largely on the writer's principles. For years, Kuznetsov chose the middle course, promising to report any "anti-Soviet activities" that he witnessed but refusing to spy on other writers. Once, after Kuznetsov had listened to a disillusioned scientist complain about being forced to work out mass-kill formulas on a missile project, the writer found himself summoned to a meeting on a park bench. "It was one of the 'comrades' [secret police]," he says. The agent repeated the conversation and demanded to know why Kuznetsov...
...Paso businessman appointed by Nixon to replace Democrat Howard Samuels, a far more aggressive leader. The society called for Sandoval's dismissal because "he no longer commands the respect of the black and white communities with whom he has to deal." SBA officials around the nation complain that they get no guidance from Washington. Walt McMurtry, executive director of Detroit's Inner-City Black Industrial Forum, voices a common complaint: "Sandoval just does not have a program. He does not know what he wants...