Word: complained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Look, if a guy wants to exercise his lungs by belting out a few bars of his favorite tune, who's to complain? Certainly not the staffers at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, when a rousing version of Hello, Dolly! wafted out of the sterile isolation room housing Dr. Philip Blaiberq, 59. Blaiberg, who used Brahms' Lullaby for exercise after his January heart transplant, has been hospitalized for the past two months with a lung complication coupled with hepatitis. Critical and near death for a time, he is now bouncing merrily along the road...
Critics also complain that the encyclical ignores historical realities that, to them, clearly justify a changing attitude toward contraception. The population explosion-which Paul treated sympathetically and at greater length in his 1966 encyclical Populorum Progressio-suggests that the biblical injunction to "increase and multiply" is no longer a useful guideline for all married couples. Both Protestants and Catholics see the latest encyclical as an unnecessary new obstacle to the realization of Christian unity...
Negroes-particularly middle-class Negroes-often complain that the only blacks who ever get into print are athletes, performers, rioters and occasional politicians. They ask: What about the rest of us? The ones who are going to school, making it through college, getting engaged, marrying, succeeding at a job? The rather lame answer can only be that, here and there, more black faces are beginning to appear in society and business columns of a few newspapers scattered across the country. But where Negro success makes surefire copy is between the covers of Ebony magazine...
Where was Woodrow Wilson's exasperated Vice President Thomas Marshall moved to complain, "What this country needs is a good 50 cigar!"? See NATION, Closing the Republic's Clubhouse...
...growing monopoly has disturbed islanders and off-islanders alike. He now owns all or part of five inns, two of the three fuel outlets and most of the shops. Last summer irate residents wore buttons declaring "No Man Is an Island" and "Ban the B." Native businessmen complain that he has doubled their rent and driven the price of land out of reach, while summer residents lament the canned "ye olde" atmosphere of Beinecke's fake gas lamps and candle-dipping shops...