Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students, themselves, write in many irate letters to complain that the office puts too little emphasis on specific placement. One student sent such a letter last September. He charged that the office was over-staffed--it has four graduates of girls' college, in addition to Clark--and its methods were useless. He came in later, however, and after working for two months with the same methods, landed a 'plum...
Most of his helpers have great admiration for him, though some complain that he overorganizes. He does most of this work in luncheon-conferences (to save time)--which range from two and three day gatherings to his "round tables" of his Formed Elements Group. At the latter, experts in fields related to blood separation and preservation gather once or twice a month to munch sandwiches and discuss recent progress. These are tape-recorded for future reference...
...General Assembly. His Washington experience provided him with a story which always gets a chuckle at Illinois political meetings. The Russians had provided specifications for a complicated project and the U.S. Navy was to furnish blueprints. One day a Russian colonel came to Stevenson's office to complain that the blueprints had not been delivered. "We are behind," admitted Stevenson. "But the reason is that you fellows were two weeks behind." The Russian glared at him and said: "Mr. Stevenson, I did not come here to talk about my behind but about your behind...
Pechstein happily showed up at the gallery, mingled with the crowd. He heard one stranger complain that an alpine landscape was "too sophisticated." The artist quietly joined the discussion. "It's high up in the mountains," he said. "Snow and icy waters are like that. The colors change." The amateur critic flushed when another bystander identified the old man: "Master Pechstein ought to know." But Pechstein had not come to squelch critics. Said he, beaming: "I'm happy to see so much of my work lined up together again...
West German coal production is increasing by leaps & bounds (since 1946, output has jumped 300%). But though the International Ruhr Authority still earmarks 25% of German output for export (mainly to France), French steelmen complain that Ruhr shipments of coke and coal have fallen by 25% since 1949. And German nationalists are whipping up resentment against compulsory coal exports: they accuse the Allies of sending Ruhr coal abroad, and compelling Germany to import more expensive U.S. coal...