Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopeless cause. Even if God issued an environmental statement there would be someone to complain," he said...
Most female students complain, too, that they still face discrimination. "Women are asked many more questions than men with comparable credentials," says Sandra Grundfest, assistant director of career services at Princeton. Even so, the College Placement Council predicts that businesses will hire 54% more women graduates this year than in 1973. That big an increase would give women 24% of all the jobs to be filled by graduating students this year...
Community groups constantly complain that the Kennedy Corporation has treated them as pawns to be pushed around, and complain about the secrecy in all library preparations. Library officials, they owned the land and had zoning to build almost anything they wanted...
Democratic members of the committee considered the letter insulting, but most kept silent and let the Republicans complain. "It was offensive to the House," protested Edward Hutchinson, the committee's ranking Republican. "If this is a ruse to prevent us from getting what we asked for, I don't want to fall for it," added Robert McClory, one of Nixon's staunchest backers on the committee. "The letter," conceded House Republican Leader John Rhodes in understatement, "left a great deal to be desired...
Fortunately, in the Q.E. 2's resting place 270 miles south-southwest of Bermuda the seas were fairly calm, and passengers' morale was in most cases high as a kite. Surrounded by water, water everywhere, no one could complain that there was not a drop to drink. Ordering the bars open round the clock and all grog on the house, dapper Skipper Peter Jackson kept the bands going, the jollity flowing, for two drifting days. "It was all a little like Dunkirk," said one ship's officer. "You know, we English do have a talent for snatching...