Word: carping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadian economists did not carp at the British. It was true that Britain did not have enough dollars for all her needs, logical that she should refuse to borrow more than she had a prayer of repaying. But Canada had not been niggardly in meeting Britain's needs in the war. Why should Britain now doubt that Canada would put up the money, somehow, to keep trade going...
Actually, since the Army took over only ten of the 640 retail stores, it had little chance of even making enough money to break even on all of its operations. But it had run the stores so well that probably even irascible old Sewell Avery could find little to carp about. Said one Ward official: "It's hard for me to believe that Ward's won or lost anything by the seizure. I doubt if people either bought or stopped buying because the Army was in. Things just don't happen that...
...build a breakwater. Red-faced Seabees in green baseball caps, looking like goggled gods on their bulldozers, invaded the tropical paradise with noise and construction. By last week they had moved enough of Guam's earth to bury Tokyo's Imperial Palace, with all its moats and carp ponds. In nine months they had built the greatest advance base in the Pacific-some 5,000 miles from San Francisco, and but 1,500 miles from Japan...
...Japanese Exclusion League, about which you carp ... is building public interest for a postwar election, after the 10,000,000 Yanks get back from the Jap battlefronts, to vote on a Constitutional Amendment that would make it impossible for a Jap to have citizenship, no matter where he was born. If the Jap-lovers are against that American plan, let 'em say it with ballots...
...every ichthyologist knows, certain fish seem to possess an acutely developed weather sense: e.g., the loach, a species of carp (known in Germany as the "weather fish"), which becomes very lively when the barometer drops. From Cape Town last week came a whopping weather-fish story. Dr. Cecil von Bonde, South Africa's fisheries director, said he was testing a fish which seems able to forecast weather after death...