Word: complain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Casualty men complain that inflation-minded juries are handing out purse-popping awards in accident cases. Accidents are growing because there are more cars on the road, and too many motorists are driving too fast and too carelessly. The cost of car repairs has also shot up, and new cars are more difficult to fix than pre-war models. For example, to replace a front fender on a 1940 Chevrolet cost $18.80 for parts and labor ten years ago; the same job on last year's model costs $42.50. As a result, in spite of six rate increases...
There was a lot of food, he said, but it was mostly cold cuts, potatoes, and cheese. When he made remarks about it, one of his fellow delegates said, "We can't complain, you know...
...theater tickets, ice cream, candy, a performance on the wharf by bathing beauties, swivel-hipped hula girls, and prancing cancan dancers. The boys thought it was great stuff, but some of Seattle's moms didn't. They wrote letters to the papers, buttonholed and berated officials to complain about the show the girls put on at dockside...
...When I hear some Sears & Roebuck pistol-toting cowboy from Brooklyn insinuate how the Government has tailed up the farmer at the expense of all the rest of the people," said Republican Burdick, it does not set well with me ... You complain against the beef men. I am one of them . . . I am willing to take a loss on my cattle, and it means $8,000 loss to me on the one rollback. I am willing to stand for that if it will help the entire country .; . If I was concerned only with my own interests, I would vote against...
...decisive reversal of the course of the truce conference, are not trying the full-blast victory theme in Europe - be cause they know that they cannot get away with it, and knew it even before Ridgway struck the issue. Instead, they are plugging the peace theme. Communist papers complain of Ridgway's truculence in breaking off the talks, represent the Communists as "patient," the U.S. as "power mad." The London Daily Worker printed a photomontage showing five smiling world leaders sitting around a conference table: Truman, Stalin, France's Schuman, Britain's Attlee and Red China...