Word: complained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collaboration with Behavioral Psychologist Jerry Berlin, WAOK has brought together random groups of Atlanta Negroes and invited them to cut loose in undirected and virtually uncensored sessions of psychodrama. The participants, playing the most transparent kind of "roles," throw themselves into their own characters, fight, plead, argue, boast, complain and despair about everything from the V.C. to V.D. Put on tape and aired in varying spots throughout the day under the program name Family Line, the vignettes give a sharp, thoroughly unprettified glimpse into American Negro life...
That was a surprise. Baldwin has for years made excellent pianos for both the concert stage and home. But although used by many orchestras and some solo ists, the Baldwin has never been the first choice of most top concert pianists, who complain that its sound, instead of ringing out, dies away with a metallic clunk and bogs down their tonal flights...
...grandiose but nonfunctional campuses. One example is São Paulo's mammoth "university city," which has been under construction for 22 years; today, a majority of classes are still held in an assortment of buildings scattered about downtown São Paulo, since students and teachers alike complain that the new campus is too far from the city...
...taxis are generally less expensive than in other parts of the world, and the driver who shuts off the meter and says "Let me show you my city" is practically an American archetype. Museums are by and large free. Foreigners frequently note a "basic honesty" in money dealings, rarely complain of being shortchanged or cheated. Visitors marvel at American highways, cloverleafs and bridges, admire U.S. drivers for "staying in lane," and deplore ubiquitous billboards. They are horrified at the amount of food piled on their plates and at the haste with which Americans eat, but usually leave ecstatic over American...
...throw a spitball?" challenges Cardinal Rightfielder Mike Shannon. The Giants, of course, deny it (though Perry slyly admits, "I do sweat a lot out there"). "He's a suspect to start with," says Farm Club Director Carl Hubbell. "Because he's having a helluva year, they all complain that he's got to be doing something funny...