Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American. If he used that prestige boldly to ask support for a bold foreign policy, the people would probably back him to the limit. If they did not, George Marshall, facing the greatest responsibilities of any U.S. Secretary of State, would then-and not till then-be entitled to complain of public indifference. Meanwhile, the people would look to Marshall, the statesman, for the vigorous leadership Marshall, the soldier, had given them...
...could complain that they were bad neighbors. Harry Crocker, of French Canadian descent, was a mild-mannered, grey-haired man who worked for a camera manufacturer. Mrs. Crocker ran a gift shop in Hollywood. Muriel, 30, kept house; Alicia, 20, posed for art classes; Jeanne, 13, was in school. They were all Catholics. But their skins were dark...
...after a book like "Strange Fruit," or inflexible in their command that a singer stand ramrod stiff during a rendition of "A Huggin' an' A Chalkin'," they remain helpless while the newspapers go into a detailed analysis of the intricacies of an assault. However loud the moral societies complain about the quality of the Boston newspapers, they find that the city editors are too powerful for them, quoting freedom of the press as their license to circulate cheesecake instead of news...
...Arenas. Against such tactics, the ill-organized Christian Democrats (who believe in unions but not in political strikes) are helpless. They complain: "Every victory of ours must be .fought twice, first in the political, then in the economic arena...
...thousands of well-heeled winter tourists poured in, Canadians, who sometimes complain about their cold country, were richly contented...