Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of Tomorrow's numerous alumni complain that an editor must be psychic himself to work for a psychic boss. Serenely stroking her nine gold bracelets, thrice-married Eileen Garrett says sweetly: "I've never had anything but a neurotic editor until this very moment. You know," she adds with a glitter, "the number of phonies you meet in this town...
...ordinary G.I.s had no protection from faulty technique. They suffered neglect, abuse and indignities in silence, because to complain meant having yet another psychiatric term added to an already lopsided medical chart...
Postman Rings Twice. In Dallas, a skeptical newsman heard Postman L. F. Wilson complain that he had been bit by a duck, accompanied him to the house, was chased by the duck, saw Wilson nipped again...
...third he polished off Herman Barren with a nine under par net for 34 holes. But Nelson could not hold the pace. He battled Ed ("Porky") Oliver down to the last green in the quarterfinals, then conceded the decisive 8-inch putt. Newsmen expected to hear him complain of his aching back. Instead he said simply: "My back never bothered me at all. I lost to a man who shot better golf...
Marcia (The Valley of Decision) Davenport spoke up to complain of the occupational hazards of authorship. Leading her list of 22 complaints: constipation, headache, backache, eyeache, nerves, ill-timed insomnia and somnolence, gas and hips...