Word: complained
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Reader Peeleman's letter about how Napoleon judged a woman who accused one of his officers of raping her [Aug. 12] reminded me of a similar story about a praetor in Caesar's army who also had a woman complain to him that she had been raped. The praetor handed the woman his sword and asked her to sheathe it while he moved the scabbard. The woman took his sword and lopped off his hand, causing the scabbard to fall to the floor. After that she had no problem sheathing the sword...
...arrive at all, and the bill bears little relation to what was ordered. Even so, the restaurant patron is likely to add 15% to the check for the waiter or waitress, then go home grumbling about the injustices of tipping. For the dissatisfied diner who is too timid to complain aloud, there is a palatable remedy: a union of restaurant victims called Tippers International...
...heavy-handedness of the PGA bureaucracy. "All the black players out here owe everything to Charlie--he used to have to eat in the kitchen and change his shoes with the caddies," Hill had said. "But I've gotten to the point where I don't even bother to complain about all the shit out there anymore. Nothing ever gets changed. The PGA just does things the way they want to. The players' association is about as powerful as four mosquitoes on an elephant. The commissioner can overrule anything that's decided upon. I don't even vote anymore, that...
...looking for his wife's murderers, though they are so manifestly weird that any reader of Dick Tracy would have a fair chance of finding them. No, he has become an abstract symbol of quick justice in a setting where every bit player is careful to complain that the courts are too slow, the cops too dumb. Moreover, he quickly becomes a pop-cult hero, photographed against magazine posters acclaiming the salutary effect his work is having on the crime rate. Even the police do not want to make a martyr of the man who has redefined the term...
Those who fear the rule of King Mob often complain of "the tyranny of the majority" and even romantically assert, as did one of Ibsen's characters in An Enemy of the People, that "the minority is always in the right." Lone voices crying in the wilderness often do speak good sense, and majorities can of course be wrong, or infuriatingly slow to come round to a view that is later seen to be right. But after examining all the arguments for the assumed tyranny of the majority, Ferdinand A. Hermens, professor emeritus of the University of Cologne, concluded...