Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, both observing and non-observing Jews complain, is a rabbinically sanctioned division of the population into "observing sheep and shabbos goyim-goats...
...Three Flattops. But the submariners' most grievous worry is that the Navy has fallen under the control of air-minded admirals. The assistant chief of naval operations for underseas warfare is a naval aviator, Rear Admiral Frank Akers, who has never seen submarine service. Submariners complain that the air-minded high command has virtually shut off funds for submarine construction in order to find money for three new supercarriers...
Besides his new hemline, Dior also pointed out another fashion "revolution" for 1953. His new evening dresses are designed to eliminate the need for boned corseting. His explanation: "How many times have I heard men complain that, while dancing, they were not able to feel the living body of women under the yoke which imprisoned them...
When Otis Freeman, 62, was appointed president of little (750 students) Eastern Washington College of Education at Cheney two years ago, no one on the faculty wanted to complain. After all, Freeman had been a teacher of geology and geography since 1924, and his colleagues felt he deserved a quick stint in the presidency as a climax to his career. But once in office, Freeman seemed to change-and so did the attitude of his campus...
Over the years, 14 states have passed laws of one kind or another to tax trucks on their weight and distance traveled, and thus made the highway tax load more equitable. The result is a hodgepodge of conflicting state legislation, which causes truckers to complain-legitimately-that the burden does not fall equally on local and transcontinental lines, and that long haul trucks are often unfairly penalized. But the trucking industry, a burly, brawling youngster which owes much of its growth to World War II, has not helped its case by its frequent contempt for present laws, fair...