Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little more waspishly, Walker took up the chronic British complaint that British collectors and museums do not have the cash to compete with the U.S. "If money is so scarce," said Walker, "why do you buy in Switzerland a picture like the Lanskeronski St. George and the Dragon, whose only connection with English culture, so far as I can make out, is that St. George is the patron saint of England? We were anxious to purchase this picture ourselves, but it was too expensive for us. It is an indication of the immense riches you can draw upon when...
Chicha & Coco. "We treat our colonos very well. They have no cause for complaint," says Luna's foreman. "If they want it," he says, "we even give them a daily ration of chicha and coca." Chicha is a crude corn whisky; coca is a mild narcotic leaf that deadens pain and kills hunger. Luna lets his peasants graze a limited number of livestock free (most hacendados charge one head for ten as a grazing fee). He also allots each family two acres of cropland on which to grow food-potatoes and corn, and in season turnips and cabbage...
...Dean Bundy became McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and compared the University Administration to the U.S. Government. In Washington, he said, there is "less complaint about attending committees," but otherwise the two institutions actually differ very little...
...suit that he had bought a year before. He had just got around to taking it out of the box in which it was delivered. "Now look at it," he fumed. "It's wrinkled." Where most department stores might have offered a free pressing, Hudson's complaint department without a murmur refunded the full purchase price of the suit...
...agree with Coach Winter that Sprinter Johnson's starts are perfectly proper. "There's nothing remotely illegal about Dennis' start." says Winter. "The only sin he's committed is to run 9.3." Johnson himself is unconcerned by the ruckus. "I've never had any complaint, not even a black look," he says, "from any of the guys I've raced against. All I get from them are congratulations...