Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the ocean has been hurdled, money remains a persistent problem-"the largest we have," says USTS Director John W. Black. Yet Sylviane Mathieu, a pretty blonde doctor from Limoges, found that she could get by on $10 a day for food and accommodations after having budgeted $15. Foreigners complain that there are no middle-priced hotels in many U.S. cities: only the expensive and the grubby. By contrast, the motel-"the word that blisters the night sky of the American suburbs in vermilion, green and harlequin Catherine wheels," as Kenneth Allsop wrote in Punch-is widely appreciated...
Subjective Strength. British Philosopher Herbert Spencer once described a jury as "a group of twelve people of average ignorance." U.S. critics point out that the people best qualified to serve-clergymen, lawyers, doctors, newsmen-are precisely the ones exempted. Some judges complain that juries, either through dumbness or perversity, ignore instructions and promote government by men rather than laws. For 13 years, Authors Kalven and Zeisel have probed such complaints through the Ford Foundation-financed Universi ty of Chicago Jury Project-even to the extent of once bugging a Wichita jury room and scandalizing Congress in the process. Now, after...
...about airline "productivity"-and now the doors were wide open to above-the-line moves by both labor and management in all industries. That point was soon proved when the steel industry last week imposed major price increases, and the Johnson Administration could not in conscience do anything except complain...
...possible that CNVA hopes to draw public opinion to its side by providing clear-cut instances of public brutality and police inaction. Yet again, CNVA makes no significant organizing efforts, and leaders rarely complain about the police...
...completely happy unless he can find something to grouse about. "She's noisy and her fiber-glass hull sweats so that she's definitely clammy," says America's Cup Veteran Bus Mosbacher, whose Cal-40 finished a respectable eighth in the Newport-Bermuda race. Others complain that she lacks speed on a reach (sailing across the wind) and shudder at her dumpy, short-bowed, ugly-duckling looks. "Why don't you make your boats prettier?" asked a friend recently. Grinned Designer Lapworth, "They get prettier every time they...