Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharp-featured characters in their wrap-around polo coats." Turning away disdainfully, he trained his eye on the city's newspaper strike, found an unexplored facet: the special travail of Manhattan's paper-trained dogs. "It strikes you as so strange." Frazier wrote, "to hear one woman complain, 'I just don't know what I'm going to do about my dog-my poor little Curt. He was so used to the Times that he simply won't have anything to do with any other paper.' It seems so certifiable to hear somebody...
When folks in the scarred hills around Hazard, Ky., complain about hard times, they know what they are talking about...
...decent, we say, don't complain. This is a new kind of Calvinism that allows no individualism. It is a frightening phenomenon and as rigid as any Calvinism ever practiced...
Legal Theft. Japanese industrialists complain that they lose millions of dollars yearly because spies pass the plans for their secret new products to competitors. But there is no law in Japan against stealing trade secrets so long as no patents are violated, and products still in development are naturally not patented. "The only way to operate," says...
...League, Howe has had most of his front teeth knocked out and 300 stitches taken in his face. He has broken his skull, his collarbone, and assorted ribs and toes. He averages 60 min. -the equivalent of a full game-each season in the penalty box, and rival coaches complain that he does not get what he deserves. "When Howe gets knocked down." says one, "he looks like he doesn't care. But when he's getting up, he looks for the other guy's number. A little later, the guy will have four stitches...