Word: complained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Bill McCurdy could find only one trifle to complain about after it was all over. He said, and with reason, that the Crimson runners finished too far apart, a genuine weakness even though it doesn't show up in the scoring against competition like yesterday...
...risks institutionalization and puts his reader un der unfair pressures: "It's not the same thing if I sign 'Jean-Paul Sartre' or if I sign 'Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prizewinner.' ",. Displaying his long on-and-off Communist sympathies, he 'went on to complain that the Nobel seemed to be reserved only for Westerners or dissident Eastern-bloc writers...
...Niarchos wants out, he is not selling cheap. The asking price for the fleet and all its contracts is about $260 million, or $100 per deadweight ton. Brokers complain that the price is outrageous, since brand-new ships can be built in Japan for that much or less and at least 15 of the Niarchos ships are considered out of date. Not included in the offer are the prospering Niarchos shipyards near Piraeus or any of his other worldwide investments in oil refineries and aluminum...
Gaullist critics were quick to complain about the manner of the budget's presentation (to the public rather than to Parliament first), but few dared to challenge the facts and figures of what Giscard calls "a sincere balanced budget, without any tricks or guile." In the land of Descartes, where the class prize begins in kindergarten and the race is to the swiftest synopsis, the elegant, aristocratic Giscard has been winning prizes all his life as the fastest brain in town. Born to wealth and name, Giscard zipped through France's best schools, became a member...
Whether to beg a boon or pick a bone, the man of action has always known where to go and whom to complain to. Job, for example, went straight to the top, while others took their problems to lesser officials, settled, like Juliet, for a friar; like Aladdin, for a genie; like Oedipus, for an oracle; or like Dorothy, for an available wizard. It is only modern man-charged with an item he did not purchase, in arrears on accounts he has long since paid, his mail misdirected, his drains stopped up, toaster broken or license expired-who does...