Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canada sternly protested the incident, and angry Ralph Bunche went on Radio Leopoldville to complain on behalf of the U.N. "We have been subjected to senseless provocation," said Bunche sternly. Blandly, Lumumba brushed the affair off as "a banal incident . . . deliberately magnified by the Secretary-General...
Patients with poor appetites after surgery, he explained, are disturbed by the conventional big plate on which a small portion of food appears to be lost. While they pick at the food, they complain that they are being starved. The same amount of food on smaller, better-designed tableware, says Staples, is more appetizing. Getting the patients to eat better sooner speeds their recovery...
...Ready Mix. For their part, the contractors complain bitterly that they are often not paid on time for their work, are burdened by the complexity of the new sites (some 4,000 miles of wire and 25,000 connections) and by whole chains of changes that are set off when something new is discovered during a missile firing. The changes are necessary if the U.S. is to keep its bases as sophisticated as its developing missiles, but they can play hob with schedules. At Offutt base, more than 50 site changes have been ordered, ranging from "a few dollars...
Then Warren Burke came to the office of the county attorney to complain that his wife and four children, members of the sect, had disappeared, and he had a good idea where they were. Deputy Sheriff Ray Coffey went with Burke to the Full Gospelers' houses and found them sealed up, with newspapers over doors and windows, keyholes plugged, plastic covers over cooling outlets. Neighbors remembered the sounds of digging a while back, and it began to look as if the Gospelers had all gone underground...
...years, wrote Milan's weekly Epoca, had Italy seen an exhibit that "offered such a wide and original panorama of Italian contemporary art." The 192 paintings and sculptures were only visitors to their native land, and some Italians were inclined to complain about that. But by this week, as it opened in Rome after eight weeks in Milan, the show of U.S.-owned 20th century Italian works, sponsored by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, had won a special kind of favor. To Bologna's II Resto del Carlino, it was clear "evidence of the attention...