Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he pleaded with civilians to sacrifice more, complain less. "The cry and objection to being rationed on rubber and gasoline seem so insignificant, so ridiculous, when we see what the boys at the front have got. ... If people only knew that the saving of one old rubber tire makes it possible to produce one of those rafts, which might be responsible, as it has been in our case, for saving seven men . . . they might not worry whether they have their automobiles on weekends...
...subscriber called the Herald Tribune to complain. Told about the strike, he asked to have the comic strip Mr. & Mrs, read to him over the phone. A Tribune man obliged...
Love (blonde, queenly Alexis Smith) and the facts of Corbett's life are allowed to interfere only slightly in Pugilist Flynn's career, but fans will not complain. They can see oldtime titans destroy each other with bare knuckles in gaslit, neolithic exhibitions of carnage-under-contract. Gentleman Jim's footwork is a joy to behold (and is beheld from all camera angles). The pictured versions of his classic bouts with Joe Choynski, Jake Kilrain, et al. seem, to modern eyes, even to improve on the originals...
...worst malaria spot in the world. The deadly mosquitoes infested the gorge. Exhausted, underfed and ragged soldiers had neither mosquito nets for protection nor quinine to combat the fever. Casualties from malaria were higher than from combat. Apparently well men trudging along the mountain passes would suddenly flush, complain of the fire in their heads, then die. It was months before adequate quantities of quinine reached them...
...shoestring magnificence. U.S. planes operate from a runway built by the Japs. The planes are maintained by mechanics who work blacked out under ponchos with flashlights. The pilots go out on two or three missions a day. They sleep out a chunk of each night in foxholes. They never complain. And they always win. So far U.S. pilots have shot down more than 400 Jap planes. In August 1940, when the Battle of Britain was at its height, the R.A.F. shot down 1,091 German planes-but they were meeting hundreds of planes a day. Proportionately, the Solomons' record...