Word: complain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentiment which Secretary Hurley encountered on his "eyes-&-ears" tour sprang, as he well knew, not from any major development within the Philippines themselves but from a sudden and significant shift of economic and political opinion when the U. S. Rocky Mountain beet producers two years ago began to complain that duty-free Filipino cane sugar was depressing their industry. Louisiana cane-growers felt the same way. Concerns with $800,000,000 invested in Cuban sugar production lined up with them against the Philippines. From the North-west came the cry of dairymen that Filipino coconut oil was competing unfairly...
...implicit word: if she does not hold you breathless, she never lets you nod. And when you have finished her unspectacular narrative you may be somewhat surprised to realize that you have been living human history. Willa Cather's Northeast passages are never purple. Captious critics might complain that she sometimes simplifies too far, that her people are sometimes so one-sided as to be simply silly, that she sometimes, for one who can write like an angel, gives a fair imitation of poor Poll: "When Pierre had made a landing and tied his boat, they went...
...self-sacrifice, we have learned what it means not to be eternally protected as we are at home, and we have a better conception of the hardships that millions of people are undergoing in the world-hardships which they meet so cheerfully that we feel we dare not complain if the many concessions we receive do not equal the comforts we have...
...cannot very well fight. When excited Copenhagen reporters rushed to excited Danish Premier Theodore Stauning, demanding what he was going to do, the most terrifying threat he could utter was this: "If Norway attacks Danish suzerainty over Eastern Greenland, gentlemen,?if Norway attacks!?then gentlemen, Denmark will complain to the League of Nations...
...River Shannon canal and hydroelectric power plant which the Berlin firm of Siemens-Schuckert is rapidly completing for the Government. Part of the plant was in operation last week when pedantic German engineers hurried to the office of General Manager T. A. McLaughlin to complain about the Irish wording of some warning signs which workmen were hanging on the power lines...