Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further than this. He did not point out that if he had any ideas about defending ourselves against the attacks of "society," they were more precise than a "constant concern with the excellence of the University," and that he was poorly represented by such a quotation. He did not complain on behalf of his fellow speakers, whose ideas were excluded to make room for more talk about investigations...
That winter Stalin created a new army by drafting every able-bodied man & woman in Russia. From the Kremlin, which he never left, he directed the fighting. "No matter how they cry and complain," he told Chief of Staff Vassilevsky, when hard-pressed generals were calling for help at Stalingrad, "don't promise them any reserves. Don't give them a single battalion from the Moscow front." On a Kremlin visit shortly before the war's end, Tito heard Stalin call up Marshal Malinovsky whose army had been halted. "You're asleep there, asleep!" Stalin shouted...
...stethoscope. The clocks moved into the room directly above. Once during a three-day absence Smith left his radio blaring away and the police were called in. Smith said it was an oversight. For another two years the battle of bedlam went on. Other neighbors began to complain. One threatened to beat up Smith. After plaster-shivering crashes began causing their small daughter to have vomiting fits, the Masons decided to sue for damages...
...lecturer, he has a colorful, dynamic style. In describing the Bengali flood plain he can wax eloquent, or in quoting Macauley he can turn on a mild, elegant English accent. His oratorical style has brought one student to complain that. That rooms they give him are too small. He'd sound better in Memorial Hall...
...first. A group of students picked him up, bore him into his official residence, and deposited him on the vestibule with a loud bump. Since then, Dunster men have overrun his place, arranging his furniture, and drinking his excellent sherry. And although Carroll F. "Stan" Miles is heard to complain that his comfortable quarters have become a Central Terminal, everybody knows he loves...