Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Husbands complain that only 50 pubs have been built in all twelve of the cities. Teen-agers are bored because private enterprise has shied away from building movie houses, skating rinks and bowling alleys until there is a sufficient teen-age population to support them. The youngsters avoid the archaeological clubs, Young Conservative Clubs, the teen-age branches of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. "This town is a dump," says a 17-year-old in Stevenage. "Unless you like walking around looking at new buildings. There's certainly not much else to do." In the U.S., sociologists have found...
Handicapping is no job for a sensitive man. Owners complain bitterly about "unfair" weights, but Trotter shrugs off such criticism with the impassivity of a baseball umpire. Fortnight ago, when he assigned 136 lbs.-heaviest handicap of his career-to the speedy, four-year-old gelding, Kelso, in the $112,800 Brooklyn Handicap, Trotter said calmly: "I expect complaints." None came-although Kelso had to spurt from behind to eke out a narrow, 1¼-length victory. "He's one of the great ones," said Handicapper Trotter after the race. "No question about it." Then Trotter added: "Of course...
...quickly demonstrated that he was not above taking part in similar stunts himself. Five Illinois corn and soybean farmers got so mad reading about Farmer Smith's Cadillac that they jumped into a 1959 Chevrolet, drove all night and arrived in Washington the next afternoon to complain that Smith was not really a farmer at all, and was "creating a bad impression on city folks." The travelers were a motley band two were Republicans, three were members of the subsidy-opposing Farm Bureau, and one was named Patrick Henry. But all made less than $6,000 a year...
...afternoon papers complain of invincible distribution problems (their delivery trucks must roll during rush-hour traffic), of bad time breaks at deadline, of stern suburban competition (41 afternoon suburban dailies in the New York area against only twelve morning suburbans), and of the sheer cussedness of the New York commuter. Says the World-Telegram's Managing Editor Wesley First peevishly: "If people read the morning papers going to work in the morning, why don't they all read afternoon papers on the way home...
...American Joint Tolls Committee originally predicted for 1960. Among the reasons why the 1960 projection proved over-optimistic was a 20-day longshoremen's strike at U.S. lake ports and a slowdown in ore shipments during the recession. But other difficulties are more chronic and basic. Some shippers complain about slow, costly stevedoring at Seaway ports. Others have been discouraged by erratic shipping schedules and time-consuming accidents and stoppages, notably in the Welland Canal, which is the Seaway's Scylla and Charybdis...