Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sitting ducks chose the same route back into the race--exploiting their status as special targets to complain of outside interference in the elections. And the strategy has been effective; in every race the incumbents have at least managed to climb back into the fight...
...presidents were chosen in hurried consultations between top party leaders huddled in smoke-filled rooms. Hastily selected, quickly nominated, winning almost unnoticed, they ascended the steps of Blair House, and disappeared--never to be heard from again. The obscurity of the office prompted then vice-president Theodore Roosevelt to complain that it was "not a stepping stone to anything but oblivion," and FDR's first vice president. John Nance Garner, to say that the post was worth less than "a pitcher of warm spit...
Life is uncomfortable, but in the fervor of war few complain...
Field hockey's intramural cousin, co-ed football, hasn't been as successful, primarily because both the physical advantages and the experience are on the men's side. Many women complain that they play no real part in a game, and are included merely to meet the female quota required for each match. One anonymous woman from Quincy House recalls a co-ed football game earlier this year: "Of the three women on our team, not once did any of us get to throw the ball, carry the ball, or catch a pass. Not one of us was even thrown...
Watching with wonder?and no doubt a little envy?the whirling star named Sagan, some of his colleagues feel that he has stepped beyond the bounds of science. They complain that he is driven by ego. They also say he tends to overstate his case, often fails to give proper credit to other scientists for their work and blurs the line between fact and speculation. But they probably represent a minority view. Most scientists, increasingly sensitive to the need for public support and understanding of research, appreciate what Sagan has become: America's most effective salesman of science. His pitch...