Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toilets & Trash Baskets. The crowd voiced its feelings with acrimony on other subjects: unclean school toilets, school bus service, street trash baskets, abandoned trolley rails. But the people of Munjoy Hill did more than complain. By a show of hands, they worked out a compromise plan for night automobile parking on public streets: repeal of a present city ban except in winter when snow plows must reach the curbs. They decided they did not want to spend tax money on lights for a softball playing field...
...deficit" on the low rates on newspapers, magazines and advertising matter, a subsidy "to the tune of several hundred million dollars a year." Opposition to raising rates has come from "the slick-magazine publishers," said Truman, "and I mean that word in two ways . . . They have the nerve to complain about the high cost of government...
...college you have an opportunity to be different, even to be different, even to be eccentric, and I hope you will make the best of it," she stated. She also warned Cliffedwellers against accepting every statement their professors make. "I have heard faculty members complain that Radcliffe-students are too docile," she explained...
...world. No one is asking Goodman to turn down heaping second helping, or the CRIMSON to lower its annual beer consumption; it is only once a year that a Food-for-Europe drive or its equivalent asks Harvard men for a fraction of their monthly allowances. But to complain when not only does one eat well personally, but the country one hails from lets food rot while other parts of the world go hungry: that is simply indecent...
...somewhat inane to complain of Iron Curtain restrictions when we laughingly violate them in a way which can only make them more strict? To be sure, it was a good lark: but Americans, even Harvardians, are going to have to learn that they cannot be Men of Distinction and Lone Rangers at the same time. Staughton Lynd...