Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...involvement in foreign policy and his closeness to the President, State Department types call McGeorge "the usurper" and "Rover boy." Three years in Washington have mellowed and humbled him somewhat-he was particularly shaken by the Bay of Pigs fiasco, a project he backed wholeheartedly-but some acquaintances still complain of his intellectual arrogance, and one official refers to him as "the coldest fish around." At the Pentagon, Bill is occasionally accused of a lack of imagination and a Brahmin disdain for his colleagues, but that is a minority view...
...Navy is anguished by McNamara's recent rejection of its request that its next carrier be built with a nuclear propulsion plant as was the two-year-old carrier Enterprise. The decision led some admirals to complain that the Navy cannot hope to have its second nuclear carrier in operation before 1971. And if the Navy has not gone nuclear by then, moans one, "it will be too late." The broader questions of just which type of ships should be nuclear and what role carriers should perform in the future are the subjects of Enthoven's ominous studies...
...spent in the islands. Seven watch companies-including subsidiaries of Hamilton and Benrus-assemble movements from Japanese, French, Moroccan and even Russian parts that are imported at the Virgins' low 6% tariff rate. Other companies process shoelaces, textiles, pens and medical thermometers. Old-line sugar planters complain that they can no longer get cane cutters at 600 an hour while the new factories pay $1.15, and housewives cry that the monthly cost of maid service has inflated from...
...plagued by commuter problems. "Don't forget we just breeze in and breeze out too," one professor noted. A teacher who anticipates an hour's ride home may hesitate to chat with students after class. And faculty friendships, like student relationships, suffer from the daily migration: staff members frequently complain that they have few opportunities to meet anyone outside their department...
...They are learning [teaching techniques] while they are here. Children in schools also complain they cannot fully understand the English the American teachers use," he said...