Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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That openness is yet to be reflected in textbooks, which have not been replaced. Modern dictionaries explaining high-tech and slang words are not available; geography teachers complain about a lack of up-to-date maps. "We learned about the working classes' victories over capitalism," says Annegrit Wernicke, 16. "But we hardly knew anything about Napoleon...
...while many praise him for the seriousness with which he faces the duties of his office, others complain that Bok has little tolerance for anyone he feels is less thorough and thoughtful than he is--in other words, for anyone who disagrees with...
...first-year students, you'll even have an administrator all your own: Henry C. Moses, the dean responsible solely for dealing with the worries of Yardlings. He's the one your roommate's parents will call to complain that their daughter says she can't live in the same suite with you for eight more months...
...girl study. Boy and girl go out with roommates on weekends. Boy and girl complain that they have no romantic life. Boy and girl wish for that first girlfriend/boyfriend...
...High School in Brooklyn, the crowd needed little encouragement to draw comparisons between the problems of South African blacks and their own dilemmas. As he spoke about the inadequacy of schools for blacks in South Africa, some of his listeners shouted back, "Same here!" When he went on to complain that in South Africa whites control the education of blacks, others in the crowd picked up the chant: "Same here, same here...