Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people of the U.S.A. complain of declining international prestige and wonder why. We of this country realize you have a color problem, but so have we, as we are outnumbered 100 to 1. Even so, I have never seen a European here vent childlike emotions on a small native child. That such a thing can occur in the U.S.A. is sufficient evidence of the immaturity of the people concerned to cause us grave doubts of the fitness of the U.S.A. to be a bulwark against Communism...
...doing nothing at all. The commissioners had heard much testimony in favor of the Canadian publishers' thesis, but here and there another voice was raised. Sardonically noting that as a regional publisher he had to contend with the same competition from Canada's national magazines that they complain of from U.S. magazines' Canadian editions, Publisher Michael Wardell of the Fredericton, N.B. Atlantic Advocate (circ. 22,982) had flatly told the Commission: "There can be no possible justification for a general assault upon American magazines -which would be nothing short of an assault upon freedom of the press...
Pediatricians argue that growing bones may be seriously harmed by strenuous activity, and that children's exercise should be widely varied and lightly disciplined, because their interest span is short. Organized leagues, they complain, do not classify youngsters by physical maturity but by chronological age-a notoriously misleading guide for grouping growing children. "Children are not little men," said one doctor last week. "Cutting down the field and changing the rules doesn't make football a kid's sport...
...cartoon's format, once their already prepared skits are run through they will either join the ranks of the permanently unemployed and unemployable or Bert and Harry will move over to new producers to continue at half speed. Bert and Harry's loyal viewers immediately began to complain. Answered Y. & R.: "Esoterically, it was the most successful commercial of all time. But more beer drinkers will buy from the jingle...
...program. But it was cut back in 1959 after the Bureau of Public Road, depleted its funds with heavy spending to combat the 1958 recession. Some contractors needed work to pay for their expensive equipment, and they began making low bids, often at cost, to get the work. They complain bitterly about the price-chopping competition. One large builder says his profits are down 50% since 1957: another says his "are so slim they are almost negligible...