Word: complainingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partner [and requested] that a letter be procured from the Attorney General. I said, 'My goodness, if there is any such suspicion, forget it.' " Repeatedly, Talbott was asked whether he and his Air Force general counsel, John Johnson, had called RCA Attorney Sam Ewing to complain. "My memory," he said, "is very hazy." Next day, after checking with Air Force Counsel Johnson, Harold Talbott remembered that he had indeed complained over the phone to RCA's Ewing about the contract for Mulligan...
...sort of burns me up, the Russians being first," said Macfarlane. "But we shouldn't complain. It isn't everybody that even co-discovers a comet...
...decade of time. The impression made by his poems is not of a blaze of fireworks but of a white-hot center. At his least impressive, he is spare and dry; at his peak, his closest neighbors are the lyricists of ancient Greece. Where lesser poets exalt or complain lustily, Graves writes like one who is in perpetual mourning but is also far too proud to take refuge in disillusioned reading or drinking. This combination of subject doom and kingly dignity gives his works the special quality that distinguishes him from all other poets...
...Publicity Front. Huntington Hartford, A. & P. stores heir and art patron, took full-page ads in six Manhattan newspapers to complain that art worldlings are pulling the wool over the public's eyes. No friend to modern art, Hartford glibly lists "the diseases that infect the world of painting today" as "obscurity, confusion, immorality, violence." He concludes with a call to arms: "Ladies and gentlemen, form your own opinions concerning art . . . and when the high priests of criticism and the museum directors and the teachers of mumbo jumbo thoughout the country suddenly begin to realize that you mean business...
...sometimes worked at cross purposes. By funneling $55 million into new plants for Du Pont, Titanium Metals Corp. and Cramet, Inc., the Government managed to jump production from 1,000 tons of titanium sponge (i.e., titanium pig) in 1952 to an estimated 10,000 tons this year. But manufacturers complain that titanium is pesky to fabricate, needs special machines, and the quality of the metal fluctuates. As a result, the industry is now selling only an estimated 17% of production, and the U.S. Government has contracts to buy the rest at market prices...