Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complain about the weeds in your garden. Eat them. There is nothing quite like a tossed weed salad, preceded by an entree of burdock stems in batter, and topped off by cattail-pollen pancakes...
Meanwhile, at Escanaba, Mich., ore piled up from rail deliveries across the tip of Wisconsin. Freighter captains cursed. Fifteen ore boats nudged each other in the two-dock harbor which can load only six at a time. Escanaba had more than the weather to complain about: only recently WPB stopped work on a $58,000,000 War Department program to enlarge Escanaba loading facilities, and to provide a large-scale alternative route in case bombs or sabotage knocked...
...interest of students who complain about the heavy burdens the college man must bear these days, Widener Library, under the direction of Kimball Elkins, has set up a display of college manuscripts which gives an interesting picture of the University's unique situation during the Revolutionary War period...
Admiral William Harrison Standley, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, no longer had cause to complain that the facts of Allied aid were being withheld from the Russians (TIME, March 15). The exchange of information and good will was two-way. In London, cinema audiences hailed a Russian film, Stalingrad, as the equal of Desert Victory, In the U.S., audiences and critics applauded MARCH OF TIME'S One Day of War, which had been derived from a longer Russian film, and the epic Siege of Leningrad...
Grocers & Grousing. In Elwood, Ind., Grocer Harrison Holmes listened to a customer complain for an hour about rationing, got a gun and shot him dead. In Hartford, Conn., Grocer Salvatore Viola announced that he was tired of his job. Said he: "I will quit and go pick dandelions...