Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administration's recognition of the fact. Mexico needs U.S. scrap for steelmaking, U.S. autos for transport, U.S. dollars for expansion. "Poor Mexico," many a Mexican has sighed, "so far from God, so near the United States." Time has taken much of the sting out of his complaint...
...Purcell suite from "The Virtuous Wife" and a Corelli Concerto Grosso in D. Later in the evening the group played the seldom-heard Vaughan Williams "Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus'", a lovely piece for Harps and Strings which had Williams' customary lushness of orchestral sound. The only complaint to be registered about the evening in Sanders Theatre, as a matter of fact, is an old one: there were not enough people there. Perhaps the earlier Glee Club and Band concerts are an explanation; in any case there should have been more members of Harvard University interested in its outstanding...
...equal number of disadvantages also come with the non-honors program, the most consistent complaint being that four courses without tutorial leave the student with only a garbled and incomplete picture of English literature...
Krug remained silent; he suffered Lewis's rawhiding without complaint. Then he ordered 518 Government-held mines closed for safety reasons. Lewis bawled with triumph: "This is Krug's deathbed confession. Oh, God, what a monstrous, grotesque mistake that he is in the position which he occupies...
...Labor Party and Government will make a serious mistake if they misread all this to mean that they can get by with anything. The one complaint heard in workers' canteens and in Tory bosses' offices alike is: "They don't give us a lead." It is the single crack in Labor's armor, and it could widen into one big enough to let out Clement Attlee and all his Cabinet...