Word: complainingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...younger than Churchill," he said, "and I don't admit his superiority even in the matter of how much alcohol we can take." From about that time, Budu implies, the Soviet Union has been run pretty much by the Molotov-Malenkov axis, even though Stalin used to complain that "Molotov is no good at ending arguments, only at starting them . . . Sometimes he is really unbearable...
Johnson had seized the reins firmly, had launched his Senate organization harmoniously and effectively. He started off by naming Northerners to the only two vacancies on the powerful Policy Committee, and from then on gave the liberals little opportunity to complain. In making standing-committee assignments, he dared to violate the traditions of seniority. To get all his men working where they would do the most good, he cajoled, horse-traded and argued some oldtimers (including some Southerners) into giving up some of their key committee seats. By that method he found an Armed Services Committee seat for Missouri...
Hearing a tuberculous man complain that he had to pay 40 francs (80?) a day on medicine, the King pocketed the empty medicine bottle, apparently intending to insure the man a supply. In a 14-family one-toilet tenement, the King stooped under a clothesline to talk to the inhabitants...
Doctors and midwives have long known that women nearing the end of pregnancy hate to lie flat on their backs-many complain that it makes them feel weak-but nobody knew why. There is good reason for the phenomenon, Dr. William F. Mengert of Southwestern Medical College reported last week. The heavy-laden uterus can press too hard on the big vessel (vena cava) carrying blood back to the heart, and thus cause a dangerous drop in blood pressure, or shock. Dr. Mengert hopes that his discovery will save such patients from needless operations, because the real remedy...
...street wears its usual mask of myrrh and mink; crowds still complain about the crowds; but padlocked boxes have replaced Salvation Army tambourines. Inside the big stores, cheese cloth cherubs still butter among the silvered spine boughs, but it now costs a quarter to see Santa Claus...