Word: complainingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...herself a part of the show's color and action. Says Director Abbott: "She's a complete jewel-quick, indefatigable, cooperative and objective. She knows what's good for the show and what's good for her. She'll rehearse for hours and never complain. And though she has a mind of her own, she never questions any decision." Unlike the producers of Can-Can, Abbott spent the early weeks of Yankees striving to build up Gwen's part in every possible way. "Her first entrance," he says, "was much too late. Gwen knew...
...when the Russians began to complain with more and more insistence that he was not listening to their advice, Tito professed bewilderment. In the exchange of letters with Stalin and Molotov in 1948 which led to his excommunication from the Communist ecclesia, there was an air of incredulity that the Russians really did not mean what they said about the independent nature of each people's democracy. Answering a Soviet charge that its Soviet military advisers were treated with "hostility," Tito protested: "We are amazed, we cannot understand, and we are deeply hurt." Wouldn't the Soviet government...
Vigilante. In Columbus, Ohio, when Harry Hilton, 34, called to complain that two police cruisers were wasting their time "loitering" in his neighborhood, suspicious police looked up his name, sent one of the cruisers to arrest him on an old armed-robbery warrant...
...with the University Police. This requirement is reasonable and necessary, but it has often been violated during the past year. To end these infractions, the Council would increase the penalty for failing to register an automobile with the University from $10 to $20. Certainly no student can justly complain against this proposal...
...landscape flickers back and forth between realism and surrealism. The road along which the regiment marches "was not a marching straight into autumn . . . Under our marching boots the grass withered and faded." Through sucking mud and pathless rain, the soldiers march to Hill 317. They fight, joke, brawl, complain and die on the hill, forgotten by headquarters. Brooding over them is the gaunt figure of the Gravedigger Captain in his draggling coat, explaining to Adam Ember that he took the job because he wanted to be on the side of victory. "You don't imagine either...