Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Myers met again with the undercover agents in a Philadelphia hotel room last January and pressed for more payoffs. He grumbled about having to split the $50,000 with his friends, but soon turned philosophical. Said Myers: "Who am I going to complain to? My Congressman?" He promised to help the "Arabs" build a $34 million hotel and coal-shipping operation in Philadelphia by running interference with the city's Mafia bosses, but warned the "Arabs" that they must stick to their word. Said Myers: "I can't go back [to the Mafia] and say, 'Look...
Most people have no complaints when they arrive, throw their bags on the bed and discover that their roommates are loveable rogues. Inevitably, they complain about denied expectations. Warning: there are very few single bedrooms in the Yard and even fewer single rooms...
Tenants spokesmen around the city said they felt the increase was fair. "We really can't complain," one member of the Alliance of Cambridge Tenants said...
...wife Anna and their three children to Chicago. He worked as a factory janitor, she as a cleaner in a hospital. But neither formed close ties with the Windy City's large community of Ukrainians, many of whom were World War II refugees, and Michael soon began to complain: Chicago was too noisy, the air polluted, the weather bad, the food contaminated by chemicals. Eventually he began to talk of going back home...
Mother Jones' covers can be blatantly sensational (the 1977 anti-Pinto effort featured a woman trapped in a burning car), and some critics complain that the magazine gives more flak than fact. Contributors, paid $700 to $1,000 for feature-length articles, are known for their ponderous prose. Explains Dowie: "When they should have been in class learning to write like William Buckley and George Will, they were on the front lines...