Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...endeared himself to everyone, of course. Critical letters have come in. Some Republican Senators are snarling about him from the background. Critics complain that Ervin is more out to get Nixon than the truth. But his image of constitutional integrity, his country humor and deftly self-mocking senatorial grandiloquence have turned him into a major American personality...
...Inability to unite. European nations complain that they are being treated separately and as lesser powers by the U.S. But they have failed to get together in a united Western Europe grouping that might deal on more nearly equal terms with the superpowers and maintain its own united nuclear force...
...strict Islamic law relegating women to the second-class citizenship Gaddafi has forced on Libyan women. "Because of biological defects, a woman's place is in the home," intoned Gaddafi. "These are not defects, Mr. President!" came the outraged reply. "All right, then," responded Gaddafi, "nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps." That sexist sentiment hardly endeared him to the women. To make matters worse, a number of Libyan women whom Gaddafi had flown in to reassure their Egyptian sisters about the joys of subservience instead pleaded with the Egyptians to help them change...
...Israeli Psychic Uri Geller was not pleased when our Science section disclosed in March that he had apparently hoodwinked researchers at one of the nation's leading think tanks by employing simple magician's tricks. But he has no reason to complain. Since the story was printed, he has been the subject of magazine and newspaper articles, has been called upon to demonstrate his "powers" at numerous public appearances, and was an honored guest on a television talk show...
Residents whose income is tied to the tourist trade fear that they will be shut out by the new owners. Some Honolulu tourist officials complain that the Japanese are developing a "closed system" in which their countrymen fly J.A.L., use Japanese-owned hotels, buses, shops and restaurants, and Japanese tour guides. "American interests do not see a dollar's worth of business," says one official. The Japanese investors, however, deny this charge...