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Word: complainers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard-educated speculator, Sir George Downing, the Whitehall relic, four stories high, so depressed Melbourne that he refused to set foot in it. Haughty Margot Asquith called it "squalid," Lloyd George's wife would not move in until adequate plumbing was installed. During the blitz, Churchill complained that it was "shaky." One ancient boiler heated both Nos. 10 and 11, residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, leading then-Chancellor Rab Butler to complain that when Churchill set the thermostat in the 70s or 80s, he, Butler, was being "fried alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Back Home at No. 10 | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...Dean Sert and is not in his back yard; it is on the property of a University one of whose aims is the education and civilization of Mr. Weil, among others. If the Holyoke Center were a low four stories Mr. Weil would like its height, but would probably complain that is was not airy enough since it pushed him into the street. So he would again write an editorial requesting "something spacious and airy" and "uncluttered" which presumably means a vacant parking lot of 85,600 sq. ft. adjacent to Harvard Square. The four million cubic feet of desperately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More On Sert | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

Back in 1855, Boston became the first major U.S. city to outlaw school segregation. Today, about 30 of its 190 schools are de facto segregated-85% or more Negro. Although Negroes complain loudly of inequities, the school committee is uninterested-and it hard ly has to care. In last week's primary, despite intense Negro campaigning, Boston's heavily Irish Catholic voters gave the incumbent committeemen such a whopping plurality that the same old policy seems inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schools: Boston's Backwardness | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

...tried in such joint disorders as rheumatoid arthritis, which are known to be eased by heat and aggravated by cold. But for routine strains, sprains, bruises and Charley horses, he finds chilling to the point of numbness the most effective treatment yet devised. And even though patients may complain at first of its discomfort, they usually feel so much better after the treatment that they go home and do it for themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physiatry: Ice Massage | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

While big business surges to new profit records, the nation's 300,000 small manufacturers complain that the boom is passing them by. Most share the lament of Chairman Glenn H. Friedt Jr. of Detroit's United Platers, Inc., which handles chrome plating for the fast-moving automakers: "I find it embarrassing to admit that this year is no better than last year." Worse yet, Dun & Bradstreet reports that 87% of the nation's 15,800 bankruptcies last year were small businesses, i.e., those with liabilities of less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Trouble in Lilliput | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

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