Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Straw Hats & Helmets. Against this case, Ollenhauer's Socialists could only complain that rearmament is unpopular with German youth, and that to join irrevocably with the West is to abandon East Germans and perhaps in time to cause a Bruderkrieg (literally, war of brothers) between two armed Germanies. Answered one of Adenauer's supporters: "There is no longer a choice between straw hat and the steel helmet. The choice now is between a steel helmet with or without a Red star...
When the Senate's censure proceedings ended, Senator McCarthy could no longer complain that his exposure of Communists was being "hamstrung." With a public show of energy tempered by bluster, he ordered his Permanent Investigations Subcommittee into action, ostensibly to find Communists in defense plants...
...Well," Barnaby said yesterday, "No coach can complain about his graduation losses. He knows the boys are going to leave, and if he doesn't build for the next season it's his own fault...
...Department of Design), Albers considers all his own work experimental. By painting squares within squares of varying colors, he achieves an endless variety of odd, beautiful and sometimes disturbing effects. "I push my colors," he explains soberly. "I want to push a green so it looks red." When students complain that to "push" colors Albers limits himself to the coldly unemotional, the artist replies with a thin smile that "emotions are usually prejudices...
...counteract these figures, the bankers have been wheeling out some arguments of their own. Bankers complain that many savings and loan associations do not make it clear that they are not banks; that with 83% of their capital tied up in long-term mortgages, they are neither diversified nor able to pay off investors if there should be a sudden rush of withdrawals. Savings and loan men answer that, under law, 6% of their funds are kept in cash or Government bonds, hence are readily liquid, and most accounts are Government-insured, just like most savings accounts. They also argue...