Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Williams C. Brady '57, president of the New Conservative Club, rival organization of the Conservative League, said last night. "If Seoger is a Communist the League play have good reason to complain. Otherwise, he continued, "I do not believe that they have a valid protest...
...infantryman going through rifle training may have good cause to complain that his left arm is so numb that he cannot move it, three medics at the U.S. Army Hospital at Camp Chaffee, Ark. reported. They saw scores of cases of "rifle-sling palsy," lasting as long as three weeks. The answer: loosen the sling every few minutes...
...Corballis will not point out any "special sweetheart," among her hundreds of "gorgeous boys." Proudly she tells of their conduct when the University exchanged the square, muddy brown trays for the new circular platters. Although complaining that the new trays were too shallow, the freshmen never uttered a swear word, she says, not even a "damn." "These boys are gentlemen through and through." Also, she guessed, "they must like the food for they never complain, and most of them return for more dessert; except the Rockefeller and Roosevelt type," she philosophized, "they must be satisfied, or else eat again afterwards...
...rare Type I, how can the young farmer at least run a test on Type II? "Take your candidate to the fields and the barns. Escort her across a muddy feed lot, lead her through poison ivy and, poison and all, take her to a dance. She'll complain . . . but if she comes back for more, she's your pigeon...
...magazine's other editor, Angus S. Fletcher 3G, added, "It is absurd to complain about something like this. We intend to remove our posters in a week or so when people are tired of them; they are even fastened by a special paste which dissolves in the rain...