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Word: complained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guamanians complain that they are even denied the Four Freedoms which General MacArthur is bestowing upon the defeated Japanese, who oppressed the Guamanians during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEPENDENCIES: Hope Deferred | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...voice from across the border did complain. The objection came from strait-laced Avery Brundage, president of the U.S. Olympic Association. He had once dismissed Swimmer Eleanor Holm Jarrett (now Mrs. Billy Rose) from the U.S. Olympic team for late hours and champagne-drinking. But to Canada, this was different: why should he run to fellow members of the International Olympic Committee with grievances that did not concern his own team? (He also complained that Barbara Ann had accepted jewelry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ado About an Auto | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Deputy Dr. Thomas F. O'Higgins, the doughty man, rose in the Dail Eireann last week to complain that Prime Minister Eamon de Valera had called the Opposition "cubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Poluphlois Boyo | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Roviano, sly Scacchi used different tactics. He appeared conspicuously at Christmas and Easter Mass, even appointed himself to march the communicants to the rail in orderly fashion. His motto: "Above party divisions, we are first of all the village." Christian Democrats grumbled but could not complain openly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A TALE OF TWO TOWNS | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Strong Words. The outburst surprised old (75) Socialist Premier Camille Huysmans. To deputies trapped with him inside Parliament during the riot he said: "We have already spent 7½ billion francs on them. They have no right to complain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Too Many Compliments | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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