Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, U.S. picture editors complain that amateurs by & large have nothing to say. Many of them seem so exhausted by achieving technical excellence that they have no imagination left to bring to their subjects. Amateurs, like professionals, have their troubles with reality. Part of the difficulty is that they often cannot see reality through all the gadgets which fill their world...
...keeping horses comfortable-and still winning-Willie has become a great favorite among trainers, who prefer to have their horses finish with some breath left. Trainers sometimes complain that Willie seldom seems to be paying attention to their pre-race instructions, but they admit that, on the track, Willie usually follows instructions to the letter...
...rehearsed after a West Coast run of two months, the company gambols through Kismet with good-natured case. Even the gauze-pantalooned houris in the chorus seem pleasantly aware of how silly they look and make the bad moments of the show so hilariously poor that you can't complain. On the other hand, thanks primarily to Alfred Drake, Kismet's good moments are very enjoyable indeed. In Otis Skinner's old role of the resourceful beggar who marries off his daughter to the Caliph, Drake is even more personable than he was in Kiss Mc Kate. Drake is onstage...
...Scholarship office--which used to employ credit checks on the return sheets but which since has given it up--finds that few parents object to the particular form. Approximately 300 fill out the blank each year, only about 10 complain, and one or two refuse to fill...
...aside from Ala and a few others, the Shah is painfully short of talented manpower he needs. Many of the best Iranians are standing on the sidelines and frowning at the new Zahedi Cabinet; they complain that its few able, honest men are outweighed by many unproven ones and a scattering of ministers whose honesty and objectives are, to say the least, questionable. "Perhaps," said one Iranian, "there are enough honest men in the Cabinet to restrain the dishonest ones...