Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evidence which would prevent the introduction of some proof tending to establish a fact. But after . . . the testimony ... in the Army-McCarthy hearings, with its self-serving declarations, opinions, conclusions, arguments, hearsay, open incriminations and recriminations, all under the guise of testimony or crossexamination, I will never again complain about the legal rules of evidence as enforced in our courts...
Such a request did not surprise the official. He and others at Malacanan have heard wives complain that their husbands were too vigorous, or impotent, or unfaithful; they have been asked to redress the wrongs of abused farm tenants, to pay the rent of impoverished widows. Filipinos have inundated the Complaints and Action Commission with 23,000 requests for help since Magsaysay set it up last January. In a country where the fortunate learn early to use their government, and the unfortunate to fear it, the word has gone out that any man or woman, rich or poor, may come...
...division of time in which, we are told, we soak up something of the essence of civilization and the forces that make us and keep us free. Yet how often does one of the products of this Four Years come home from the office, open his collar, and complain that he is too tired to read a "worth while" book? How many college graduates-or specifically, Harvard graduates-regard the Four Years as one particular phase of their lives, to be approached, digested, and then forgotten in the exigencies of the "real, concrete" side of life...
...Questions. Critic Hutchins was impressed by what he found at Haverford, tried in vain to get students to complain about the teaching. "If I were ever a college president again," he declared, "I'd try to run it on Quaker principles." His week's companions were not unanimously impressed by Hutchins. One observation: "[He] is an administrator . . . not an educational philosopher." Explained a senior: "Some of the class expected more than they got." But most agreed that Hutchins was no cautious pedant: "He's a name-dropper but not a punch-puller...
...buildings Mies has designed for the Illinois Tech campus-simple, clean-lined constructions of glass ribbed with steel, which well serve their uncomplicated purpose as lighted areas for study. Similarly, his twin glass apartment skyscrapers on Chicago's lakefront make the most of the view, although some residents complain that the summer sun beating against so much glass sizzles the occupants...