Word: complain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sanitary conditions, Red Cloud Towner grumped: "They are not so bad when we observe your city streets . . . littered with popcorn, gum, all sorts of papers . . . The country, with all the tin cans, refuse, offal in general and potent spirit bottles are a sore eye to us, too. We never complain about our white brothers' backyards; why should he take offense at our meager mode of life...
...pioneered in TV with such effective techniques as the use of recordings for unspoken thoughts; the blending of film and live acting, and the combination of close-ups and long shots to get depth on the screen. His fondness for last-minute technical tinkering often moves CBS engineers to complain...
Even. In St. Joseph, Mo., when a 17-year-old customer returned to the Townsend and Wall department store to complain that a costly cigarette lighter he had bought was no good, the store retorted that neither was his check...
...tired of hearing Hollywood stars like Ava Gardner [TIME, Nov. 21]; complain that they hate . . . "cheesecake." It seems most of them built their fame by what they now hate. If they had real acting talent in the beginning, they would not have become famous for posing with practically nothing...
People who live on the first floor consistently complain that men dressed in painters uniforms are watching them. When they look around, the "painters" glance quickly away, but the victims are sure that as soon as they go about their business, the "painters" start watching again...