Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Seattle to Miami, every coffee spot has its mid-morning knots of wind-jamming men, its gaggle of gossiping women. In Chicago, policemen complain that Loop traffic is all but halted between 9:45 and 10 by swarming office workers out for the morning cup. In Washington, Ohio's Representative George Bender grumbled: "The Government buildings at coffee hour turn into skeletons. They look like recess time at school. The boys & girls dash off for coffee as if rehearsing for fire drill...
...Golda Myerson, Minister of Labor, whose daughter caused a sensation by marrying a Yemenite boy, tells how a delegation of robed Yemenite elders, their straggling side curls almost as long as their beards, came to her to complain that they could not tolerate the brash army youngsters who worked in their camp. They said soldiers had snatched their children, cut off their side curls, shaved their heads; that determined men in white coats had prodded and inspected their women, even violated the privacy of childbirth. All this, the Yemenites insisted, was against the rule...
...hate to resort to the public reprints for my complaints, but occasionally I become so incensed that I feel I must complain to someone. This time it is those silly people in Washington who don't want to draft 18-year olds...
...hate to resort to the public prints for my complaints, but occasionally I become so incensed that I feel I must complain to some one. This time it is those silly people in Washington who don't want to draft 18 year olds...
Bailey Everett White, plumber's helper in the town of Hobbs, N.Mex., went hunting one afternoon a fortnight ago. He shot three rabbits, brought the bag home to his wife to cook, sat down to supper. About four days later, he began to complain of pains in his stomach. Last week Hunter White was dead. His illness: bubonic plague, the dread, flea-borne disease which wiped out a quarter of Europe's population in the Middle Ages...