Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telescope its course, the Academy is also cutting down cultural studies. This may ruffle critics who complain that U.S. Naval officers lack learning, but the Academy agrees with Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, former Superintendent, who once gruffly declared: "Is the fleet ... to be judged by the standards of the liberal arts, or by hits per gun per minute? . . . Let us be concerned more whether the Naval officer is a first-class fighting man than whether he can compose a sonnet...
Most of them are "Liberty" or EC2 ships, stopgap craft, built to beat Germany. Their commercial life expectancy is only five to seven years-about a third that of normal merchant vessels. No shipowner gives a nautical damn about their lack of line. But he does complain about their waddling gait (ten to twelve knots), their ancient innards (old-style reciprocating engines), and most of all their appetite (estimated 40% more than the oil rations required by a turbine-driven ship...
Jeeves opens his campaign by nudging, winks, side remarks, or some times by just staring at "some stuffy woman," following every motion from hand to mouth. Some people go to the headwaiter and complain, if the event is large enough to merit such a sizeable staff. "Once", he said, "the headwaiter was an old actor, just dying to work something up. So I pretended I was drunk, and he fired me in front of all the guests. I left, but I kept coming back again, out one door and in another...
...drumstick and a trowel. He touched his toes, imitated a football player's kickoff, spat on an imaginary apple and polished it on his sleeve. He told the audience that his extra work came out of him and not out of the city. He ridiculed critics who complain of his Washington visits: "I saw the city needed this. . . . The bankers wanted to charge me 6%, but I could get the money in Washington for 3%. So, wham!" (He ducked his head, took a track runner's on-your-mark position, dashed madly across the stage, pulled up puffing...
...smooth muscles (such as those in intestinal walls) consume more oxygen. According to F. E. Shideman and Maurice Harrison Seevers of the University of Wisconsin, this oxygen consumption continues for several days after morphine has been stopped and may bring on the agonizing cramps of which deprived addicts complain...