Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower canceled the increase on the ground that no imminent threat was proved. Among the other cases: ¶Fishermen are aroused by groundfish fillet imports (largely from Norway, Canada and Iceland), up from 9,000,000 Ibs. in 1939 to 107 million last year. ¶ Lead and zinc producers complain of shutdowns and layoffs in U.S. mines because "a flood of imports has demoralized the domestic mining industry." ¶ Makers of woolen gloves and mittens charge that cheap imports (mostly from Hong Kong and Japan) have taken more than half the U.S. market, while half the industry...
...support: "I refuse to believe that at the present hour this Assembly intends to provoke a rupture of the negotiations . . . What other policy [than ours] do you propose? Some people seem to rely more upon our enemies than our friends, and it has become fashionable in certain quarters to complain more about the U.S., which is helping us, than about the Viet Minh, who are killing our soldiers." This remark drew a heated, mendacious retort from the Communist benches:"We are as good patriots...
After a good many years of taking criticism by distinguished visiting scholars from Britain and Europe, Philosopher Douglas N. Morgan of Northwestern University decided it was time to complain. Last week, in a letter to the Manchester Guardian, he talked back. Fond as the U.S. is of visitors, said he, too many"come to America armed with a conviction that we are infants, that our academic degrees - not earned at Oxford or Cambridge - are travesties, and that even our graduate students are merely overgrown addicts of football and television...
Estes Kefauver can talk all he wants about how hot it is in the sun and how shady in the boxcar, but he had better not complain too much about life in Washington...
...LeRoy happened to complain about this situation to a student named Neal Harr, got him so excited that Harr decided to set matters straight. He pored over maps, and from the hundreds of unnamed peaks he picked seven that fitted his own specifications-more than 12,000 ft. high, and located in easy view of a main state highway...