Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bring Kivu back under his control. But how? The only troops he could depend on were nearLéopoldville, 900 miles away, and the U.N. surely would forbid the use of trucks or planes to haul them east for an all-out invasion. No one, however, could complain when he airlifted 100 troops to Kasai as an escort for President Joseph Kasavubu on his official visit to Bakwanga, capital of the secessionist Mining State in Kasai. But soon after the heavily armed "escort" got to Kasai, the transports took off again, turned up at an airport in Ruanda-Urundi...
...life: his wife Edith, whom he married in 1915. But three years later, when Edith was expecting their first baby, she was stricken by influenza and died. "Edith is now better off than we are," Schiele told his friends. "With her all is well. We should not complain or mourn." Within three days, having caught the same disease, Schiele, too, was dead...
...moderates. Ex-President Ismet Inonu, still leader at 76 of the old opposition Republican People's Party, told friends he was "delighted." But in the prevailing atmosphere of uncertainty, business is at a standstill, and hoarding is widespread (1,000-lira notes have virtually disappeared from circulation). Businessmen complain that government officials are so afraid of being charged with dispensing favors that they are reluctant to sign the simplest document involving money. The trials of Menderes & Co. are still going on in low gear at Yassiada island, but because of mismanagement and the flimsiness of much of the evidence...
...grapple with such subjects as the rate of economic growth, interest rates and the balance of payments. Even cartoonists turned their drawing boards into economics classrooms. So widespread was the sense of involvement that Charles H. Schmidt, vice president of the National Bank of Detroit, was led to complain: "We are becoming a nation of economic hypochondriacs." The hypochondria was caused by the fact that too many economists and businessmen misjudged the economy at the beginning of 1960. They predicted such a state of economic euphoria that the aches and pains that appeared were magnified. "The glowing predictions I made...
Psychological Effects. Workers in noisy surroundings often complain of such apparently psychogenic ailments as nausea, fatigue, headache, loss of neuromuscular coordination, and reduced sexual desire. "Noise can and does drive some people to distraction," says Dr. Knudsen. "If noise does nothing more than interfere with sleep -and this it does on a gigantic scale-it is a menace to good health." Knudsen carefully catalogued causes for his own middle-of-the-night awakenings, found that 75% were the result of noise. Most common culprits: auto horns, barking dogs, ambulance sirens, chirping birds. Dr. Knudsen's solution: earplugs. The plugs...