Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right now they are not doing as good a job of stirring up peace sentiment in the College as the H.S.U. If they think they can help, that the cause of peace would benefit by their support, then their contentious accusations are a stupid way of showing it. They complain that having a C.I.O. man speak for a meeting sponsored in part by the H.S.U. means the sacrificing of peace to politics. Strangely, it is Norman Thomas, their own headliner, who is doing just that. Mr. Quill is willing to speak together with Mr. Thomas, but not vice versa...
Louis XVI's Successors. Meantime, before a military court, the trial of 44 Communist ex-Deputies went into its second week. Charged with attempting to carry on "treacherous" activities by changing their Party's name after war's outbreak, the 44 continued to complain that their rights as French citizens were being violated because their trial was in camera. Even Louis XVI got a public trial, they pointed out. The official French attitude was that if all 44 legislators were permitted to sound off in public, the case would not end before 1941. In prospect for them...
...huge helpings of everything, dirtying his sleeves and vest in the process. He plays Falstaff both because it is good politics and because he likes the role. "Look at me!" he roars, slapping his enormous stomach. "I have lost pounds in the service of the country. Why do you complain at cutting down your meals a little?" It makes no difference to unser Hermann or his people that the 40 pounds he lost last year (270 to 230) were for vanity, not country...
...Finns did not despair or complain. The one thing in their country that seemed unimpaired was their sisu (in American: guts). Where the softer Liths and Latvians and Estonians had scared out cheaply, the Finns had once again proven their durability and burnished their national honor. They had incidentally made it plain to the Russians that they would be a very troublesome people to govern, and if any net gain had accrued in putting up a game but hopeless fight instead of selling out for bargain rates to begin with, this...
...that "not by making books less like books, but by making people more like readers, must the change be effected. The plan behind the People's Library is as blind to the causes of the situation its sponsors are trying to cure as the people are at Harvard who complain about the rampant tutoring schools without realizing that the way to remedy that evil is to lift Harvard education above the level where the tutoring schools can prepare the students more efficiently for examinations than the Faculty...