Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shall complain...
When Fisher appealed to the courts, they ruled against him. (Courts have upheld the right of the wages & hours division to check a company's books, even without a specific complaint, because employees are often afraid to complain.) He appealed right up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which twice refused to review the case...
...arrangement. The Administration could offer prospective students relief from household chores, and at the same time reduce its operating budget. The new maids would be storing away valuable experience for the day when they must cater to the domestic habits of their husbands. An the students would not complain as long as their room were kept clean...
...they get pregnant, or something." Says Charles Percy, president of Bell & Howell (cameras): "Sometimes they permit themselves to be distracted by husbands and families. This is hard for businessmen to understand, since no man ever takes more than a day away from work to have a baby." But, complain a lot of businessmen, while the married women are too busy with their homes, the unmarried are too busy with their frustrations. Women in general get too deeply involved in their jobs. They are too emotional. (Says one baffled male executive: "You can't talk to women...
...years, Grandma is in fabulously good fettle, though she does complain that her feet "get clumpy" when she walks. A neighboring doctor drops by twice a week just to keep tabs on her. When people tease her about his being a beau, Grandma points out that "he's 15 years younger than me." The doctor is round in the middle, and, says Grandma, "he wouldn't have such a pot on him if he'd just lay down on the floor and roll over like he did when he was three years old and I first knew...