Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some ways they are more German than the Germans in the West-if a compulsion for keeping busy is considered a fundament of the national character. To gain a few extra marks, truck drivers frequently volunteer to work 12 to 15 hours a day; factory hands complain bitterly when their overtime is limited. Industrial charts show productivity gains that even West Germans envy...
Lots of folks think student life is idyllic. The reason the neighbors complain, the landlord reassures the students in Moonchildren, is that they would give their last hair to live like students themselves. In Moonchildren's first act there's an encyclopedia salesman, a young person like the students or the secretary who envied my freedom. "You study math?" he asked the graduate student. "I'd have liked to study math...My father made me study law." When he realizes the students are of both sexes, the encyclopedia salesman's envy soars still higher, but I don't think Weller...
...Garnet Wolseley's 1882 protest that this link between England and the Continent would provide "a constant inducement to the unscrupulous foreigner to make war upon us." Although the security argument has faded into the background, skepticism among the British remains strong today. Detractors of the tunnel complain that the government has rushed ahead so quickly with the project that it has not given due consideration to alternatives, as, for example, bigger and better Hovercraft. Its proponents reply, however, that following British entry into the Common Market, the tunnel has become a straightforward economic proposition. British Transport officials estimate...
...quarterback, Jimmy Stoeckel and Milt Holt have looked impressive. In last Saturday's intrasquad scrimmage Holt completed seven of nine passes and Stoeckel six of seven. "I don't know whether that means our defense is weak or what," Restic said. "But you can't complain about that kind of execution...
Some Towers youths complain of harassment by police and security guards. One claimed that a security guard had cooperated with Cambridge police to trump up charges against a friend of his who the police "wanted...