Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides the significance this game has for Columbia, whose students are upset to the point that they complain of poor recruiting by the alumni, this game may go a long way toward clarifying the status of the visitors. This Harvard team was questionable at the outset, disappointing in losing to Tufts, and then startling and gratifying in routing Cornell...
...Growl at 'em," Duffy cries to Sophomore Tackle Fran O'Brien. Fran growls, is hit by surprise from the side. "What happened?" he grunts, peering up at Duffy from under the pile. Duffy roars with delight. "If they pull that on you in a game, Fran, you complain to the referee...
Nasser's seizure, though it had humiliated the West, had left the West with nothing tangible to complain of. The threat remained only a threat until ships had been stopped or traffic otherwise interfered with. In fact, Nasser has always possessed the physical capability of closing the canal ever since the British evacuated the Canal Zone (he has only to swing shut the railroad bridge), and would still have the capability even after agreeing to any arrangement for international operation short of reoccupation of the Canal Zone in its entirety...
...variety of professional groups have cried discrimination. Recently the Magdeburg Party mouthpiece Volksstimme reported that district doctors had protested the "bureaucratic measures and narrow-mindedness" that barred their children from the universities. Hemmed the East Berlin weekly Sonntag: "Once in a while professors, doctors, artists, or engineers complain that their children are not, without exception, enrolled in the universities . . . But one should not hesitate to say that some children of our intelligentsia withdraw themselves from their social duties ... It is up to the intelligentsia to educate its offspring towards our most important state tasks, thus bringing the wishes...
...students and 125 faculty members. It flourished with trouble too. Students, probably encouraged by Japanese-educated faculty members, began to agitate for the return of the islands to Japan. Some students supported the Communist-front Okinawa People's Party, sent a party spokesman to Tokyo to complain of U.S. seizure of Okinawan farmlands. Anti-American articles sprouted forth in the university's literary magazine. Last month 250 students staged anti-American demonstrations, shouting "Yankees go home...