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Word: complains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conflict added up to was Republican confusion: "Although the Republicans are everywhere on the defensive, one gets the feeling that their potential strength is much greater than the voting trend indicates. In fact the Republican voting forces today seem like a leaderless army. Surprisingly large numbers of voters complain, 'We don't know what the Republican Party stands for.' Whether at this late date the President can answer that question may make the difference between a rout and a close election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: A Leaderless Army | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...quite so sweeping as the title would indicate, which is just as well. There is very little biographical detail, and he is willing to deal with his favorite novels at great length, while others are dismissed with a few pages, or none. Partisans of Victory and Chance may complain that they are worth more than a half-dozen pages apiece, but Guerard's rejection of them is persuasive...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: CONRAD THE NOVELIST, by Albert J. Guerard. Harvard University Press, 315 pp. $5.50 | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

...dimmed. The sandalmakers, smiths and petty merchants in the capital's dark-shadowed bazaars have found that life goes on much as before, with the rich a bit poorer and the poor no richer. Petty politicians grumble that they have not been allowed to form parties. Intellectuals complain that all but three Baghdad newspapers have been closed down (under Nuri asSaid there were nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Shakeout | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...with It"? Still, the marks came, saw, smelled, paid through the nose and did not complain. But on the rest of the lot, business was lousy. End-of-season weather was spoiling it, even for the pig iron (Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, whip, etc.), the moneymaking rides that most carnies consider the backbone of their show. The crowd-pulling mittcamps (palm-reading and pocket-picking gypsies) were gone. The gypsies had pinched some hogs from farmers in the last town, and the Gratz fuzz (cops) had sent them packing. Billed simply as "Stella," for its leading stripper, the girlie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: No More Rubes | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...reason for the rise in the averages is improving business prospects and the fear of inflation, which has driven money from bonds into stocks. This has caused big investors to buy so heavily in such blue chips as Du Pont and U.S. Steel that Wall Streeters have started to complain about the "shortage" in these stocks. More and more institutions and pension funds are also going into the market, usually by buying blue chips. Last week trustees for the Bell System's $2.6 billion employees' fund announced that the fund would buy stocks for the first time, spend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Break Through the Top? | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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