Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what we've got; it's respectable to be intellectually successful. This is something one just didn't see in the 1920's. It's more fun now talking to undergraduates--in fact, I like undergraduates now. How I used to suffer with Psychology 1 when people came to complain about grades...
Unmitigated Hell. As editor-publisher, the first man to hold both titles, Vail shares command with his father, Attorney Herman Vail, who was named president earlier this year. But he has complete control over the editorial operation, which some staffers complain has been neglected in recent years. Once known as the lively showcase for Charles Farrar Brown's humorous "Artemus Ward" columns, the Plain Dealer lately has grown stodgy enough to be described as "grandmotherly." Vail aims to shuck that adjective...
...another, American intellectuals are apt to complain about being lost. Nelson Algren is the lost American of his own story, but it cannot be that no one knows where he is; the uproar he creates is deafening...
Machlup pointed out that the AAUP never takes action unless the aggrieved individual makes a complaint. If Alpert does not protest his dismissal, therefore, the AAUP will not enter the case. Alpert has not indicated that he will complain to the Association...
...Many Lawyers. Foreign firms easily catch onto the American way of doing business, but many-particularly the British, who are investing heavily in U.S. real estate-complain of the tangle of U.S. laws and of the need to have a battery of high-priced lawyers always on hand to interpret them. Snorted an exasperated Englishman: "In England, lawyers tend to be kept in their proper place as advisers." It may surprise U.S. businessmen, but foreign companies make few complaints about U.S. labor. In fact, Takuji Ohshimo, executive director of the Japanese-owned Alaska Lumber & Pulp Co., finds negotiating with...