Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into Politics. White neighbors complain that the "nig-nogs, wogs, wallah-wallahs and coolies" use their milk bottles for chamberpots (and then return the empties), spit in the streets, and boost the crime rate. Many local police disagree. In Manchester, says Deputy Chief Constable William J. Richards, coloreds actually commit fewer offenses in proportion to their numbers than whites, though they are more often related to dope and prostitution, and thus more likely to hit headlines. "As a police problem," says Richards, "they are no more noticeable than the Irish were 25 years...
...Complaining about any choice of prizewinners is a bit like knocking Santa Claus. It also smacks of sour grapes. Still, people continually complain about the 49-year-old Pulitzer Prizes, most prestigious of all of journalism's innumerable awards. Somewhat sadly, newsmen have come to the conclusion that the Pulitzers are not esteemed as much as they should...
...News. Some readers complain that labor papers are still too prolabor. "Everything is 100% progress," says one union member. "They never talk about losing a fight." While the papers print their share of bad world news, they run scarcely any bad union news. A union victory in a National Labor Relations Board election rates banner headlines; news of a defeat is buried in the back pages...
...Washington, U.S.-network bigwigs were expecting to meet at the White House to complain about the President's increasing pre-emption of prime TV time on short notice. Instead of a meeting, Johnson produced a new short-notice request. As soon as possible, he said, he wanted to use Early Bird to broadcast a V-E anniversary speech direct to Europe. Three and one-half hours later, in a slow and measured drawl, he was chiding Charles de Gaulle live on British and Italian TV screens, and being taped for later rebroadcast in almost every other European nation...
...addition to the hawk-dove controversy, Viet Nam is debated on other levels. Critics complain that U.S. policymakers do not have enough facts upon which to base wise decisions or, if they do, they are keeping those facts from the public. And the press takes a beating for not supplying the facts that the Administration is accused of hiding. In self-defense, reporters in Viet Nam complain that the U.S. Government and military are making their jobs tougher than necessary with unwarranted censorship and restrictions. Last week, reporting from Saigon, TIME Southeast Asia Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch assessed the situation...