Word: complained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a lot of food, he said, but it was mostly cold cuts, potatoes, and cheese. When he made remarks about it, one of his fellow delegates said. "We can't complain, you know...
...formerly Breslau) in Poland in 1948, a "group of French and Polish intellectuals" held the World Congress of Intellectuals. Many men of good will attended, to hear Russians like Alexander Fadeyev, secretary general of the Union of Soviet Writers, lambast America. Some, like British Scientist Julian Huxley, returned to complain in apparent bewilderment that the congress "preached war, not peace." The congress paid no attention, elected a permanent International Committee of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace, and planned national branches to hold other peace meetings...
Students get to know each other very well when living in either Hollis or Stoughton which have single rooms as complete apartments. Four rooms on a floor make the dorms noisier than the modern ones which tend to have just two suites per floor. Few men complain about the communal bathrooms. Almost all dorms, new or old, have showers...
...popular" demand for a Perón-Perón ticket seemed less than overwhelming. Only 250,000, instead of the expected 2,000,000, had turned out for last fortnight's monster meeting at which the Peróns said yes. Some Peronista chieftains began to complain that too many traditions were being broken too fast and that the Sefiora had better restrain her ambitions for a while. At the last minute, moreover, Argentina's soldiers were reported bridling at the unspeakable thought that if Perón should die, a woman would be commander in chief...
Alarmed by the outcry, Joan ducked out of sight. "I dare not leave the house," she said. "The local people might go for me." Said Sergeant Stocker: "As far as I am concerned, the neighbors can complain until their eyes drop...