Word: complained
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During the Depression, he bought a 40-acre farm in North Brooklin on the Maine sea-coast (where he lives to this day), and beat the first of several retreats from the tender trap of The New Yorker. A mystified Ross was heard to complain: "He just sails around in some God damn boat." During his sabbaticals White also compiled (with Katharine) the enormously successful A Subtreasury of American Humor; he revised and updated the yellowing strictures of one of his Cornell English professors into The Elements of Style, a tiny textbook that has sold in the millions; he wrote...
...right wing Rob Ohno said after the game. "You can't complain about this one." The Crimson controlled the game from faceoff to buzzet...
...complain--when they don't score goals then I can complain," he said...
...Democratic presidential race is becoming legitimate news at last. Television crews now hover around the contenders. But the left-behinds complain that they have been mugged in the dark during these past months while the press concentrated on the rivalry between Walter Mondale and John Glenn as front runners...
They never complain. They never forget their lines. They have no agents or egos. They are composed of moving parts, but their parts are rarely moving. They are sex objects who do not object to being handled, symbols of power whose judgments go unquestioned, the most impersonal of actors in the most personal of media. They are the new stars of prime-time network television: machines...