Word: complain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aficionados may complain that not much is new in Nightingale. Like many people with long practice at being interviewed, Williams tended to repeat well-rehearsed witticisms. But the flavor is authentic, especially in such inverted cliches as "Symbols are just a way of saying something more directly" or "Miss Edwina (his mother) can best be described as a Prussian general -- an inefficient Prussian general." His phrase turning is ornamented $ with borrowings from other writers ("I like Dorothy Parker's line 'Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress' ") and fellow melancholics ("Tallulah said . . . 'If I had my life...
...everyone at Harvard may have tea with the Secretary. But any reasonable person would agree that the tea is a rare opportunity for some students to take a bigger part in the secretary's visit. We should be happy that some will have this good fortune, rather than complain that everyone cannot...
Though few residents today complain about Harvard's latest incursion into their neighborhood, resentment still lingers...
...private phone to the White House and suggested that he bring Shevardnadze to a meeting with Reagan. Shevardnadze startled the President by handing him a letter from Gorbachev about Reagan's July arms-control proposals; White House Spokesman Larry Speakes had just told reporters the President intended to complain about Soviet unresponsiveness in a speech at the United Nations on Monday. Radio Moscow later paraphrased the Gorbachev message this way: "We don't rule out the possibility of our meeting and signing something...
Gingerich said that in class Monday and Wednesday, he expressed "sympathy for freshmen and sophomores hoping to take this course." Many seniors interpreted this statement as meaning that they would be shut out in the lottery, leading them to complain to Gingerich's office, he said. As a result, Gingerich said, "It is obvious that we are going to admit at least some seniors...