Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yankees had a selfish reason to complain: there wasn't much profit in facing a team that, in one game last summer, played to only 315 cash customers. Most big-league owners are convinced that St. Louis cannot properly support two big-league teams. They would like to see either the Browns' or the Cardinals' franchise moved to Detroit or Baltimore...
Hair-Shirt Heir. War Assets Administrator Robert M. Littlejohn, whose regular offers to resign have been regularly rejected by President Truman, could no longer complain that "nobody wants to wear my hair shirt." The President finally accepted his resignation after getting Jess Larson, 42, until recently general counsel for the agency, to take over when Littlejohn leaves this week. Swarthy, affable Jess Larson, ex-mayor of Chickasha, Okla., and a colonel in World War II, is expected to strengthen at least one major weakness in the Littlejohn regime-a chronic friction with Congress...
Television newsreel scoops will not make much difference until many thousands of additional sets are in operation, but the demand is growing. One televiser was happy to overhear a newsreel theater patron complain: "Why, that's old stuff, I saw it last week on television...
Even. In Milwaukee, Arthur Pontow, who returned to the store to complain that the watch he had bought there was no good, was promptly arrested: the check he had given for it was no good either...
...done by composers of the calibre of Williams and Milhaud, the result is quite different. Like a great translation which becomes a work of art by its own merits, a good transcription becomes a piece of music which can be enjoyed as a new work. Purists might still complain, but with far less justification. Two Bach cantata choruses were also enlarged, but not so successfully. Despite the quality of performance, the effect was marred by the excess of performers, especially in the second where a series of flute echoes were drowned out by the preceding blasts...