Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British morale ever crumbles, say U.S. observers in Britain, it will be because of dwindling food supplies. Warned one, who heard an ambulance driver complain that he had not had a decent meal in a month: "The British can take it from the bombers, but I doubt if they can stand empty bellies." Foodleggers. One sinister development that aggravated the food situation was the rise in wartime Britain of a new kind of criminal: the food racketeer. Like gangsters who terrorized the U.S. under Prohibition, foodleggers have highjacked trucks, altered labels, threatened shopkeepers and cafe proprietors. In spite...
Merchants complain that they are blackmailed by a swarm of food speculators who sell them illegal supplies when normal stocks are gone, thereafter force them to go on doing business with them or be handed over to the police. Although retailers are licensed, wholesalers are not; as many as ten middlemen in some cases may pile up their profits in the dark. The London Daily Herald has unearthed a nest of "speakeasy" restaurants dealing in illicit food supplies...
...main stem restaurants serve the Green Men at from $7 to $8.75 a week, and the students complain about the exorbitant prices. Five small eating clubs, run in private houses, charge from $8 to $10, but the food is "slightly better in quality...
Concentrators complain that there is only one course each year open to undergraduates in the realms of Child Psychology and Psychology of Personality. Professor Allport's 32 is good but not enough to cover the topic of Personality. The same is true of Dr. White's course, 36, on Child Psychology. These are examples of the paucity of specific material. On the whole, the over-emphasis of psycho-physics makes this fact stand out all the more...
...that four months had passed, the grimness was gone; he was confident. He jibed at the U. S. and at Churchill. He lambasted Italians who complain about Italy's having plunged into the war, and foreigners who laugh about it: "Some think now we were too soon, who then thought we were too late." Of the conflict against the Greeks, he spoke with cryptic assurance: "Soon maybe it will be spring, and as the season may dictate, will come our beautiful season...