Word: complain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seattle taxi drivers speak of him sourly. Since 1944, Beck has kept them under local trusteeship (a state in which the rank & file cannot initiate meetings) as punishment for holding a wildcat strike. Many teamsters complain that they have no voice in the union's affairs...
Vice-President Reynolds and his subordinates complain that they have been forced to devote more and more time to answering student investigation groups, sometimes even at the expense of their real job of University "housekeeping." Reynolds and Dean Bender say that administrative personnel are not equipped to give unilateral answers on undergraduate problems and that these answers in the past; have occasionally disagreed with the established policy of the Dean's Office. The result, they claim, is an increases in student-administration misunderstanding...
...Londoner, obsessed by the high cost of living in Britain, wrote to the Times about the excesses of this year's Guy Fawkes Day, on which London urchins traditionally beg "a penny for the Guy, sir?" "I do not complain at the poorness of the floor show that they were putting on," he wrote solemnly, "but I recoiled to hear them cry, 'Tuppence for the Guy, sir?' ... I feel constrained to inquire whether the country can today afford a surcharge of 100 percent for such a matter...
...studio for years on end, signing them only when he is sure he cannot improve them by so much as a single stroke of the brush. He thinks of himself as a misunderstood traditionalist in art (his training was both academic and thorough), and he has been heard to complain that the younger modern painters "don't begin at the beginning...
Students, Alumni Complain...