Word: complainingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They didn't complain. They didn't protest. They just waited. Forbidden by Islamic law to wear hats on hajj, they sat huddled hour after hour under the broiling sun, certain that Allah, in his wisdom, would somehow get them to Mecca. Lebanese peddlers did a land-office business selling umbrellas against the fierce heat. "Yallah, hajji [Out of the way, pilgrim]!" cried airport attendants. The huddled groups moved aside, returned and continued to wait-for once on hajj, no pilgrim ever turns back...
...which made him seem a dull duck in a nest of full-plumaged drakes, a State Department lawyer named Adrian Fisher told the judges that the French were trying to weld Morocco into their own economy, insisted that the old treaty stands. The French, added Fisher, cannot very well complain that the evils of a money black market in Morocco are hurting France's domestic economy, while tolerating their own black market at home...
...just too bad that our poor neighbors and those traveling through our town can't stand the smell, but if we didn't raise our 75,000 pigs, the prices of pork, etc., would increase and the people would complain again. Wouldn't they...
Some doctors point out that much of his advice is intuitive, since little is known about the emotional life of children. A few mothers complain that he makes things sound too easy. But the book sales click along as steadily as the birth rate, and Dr. Spock gets a daily drift of thank-you letters from grateful parents. Their children have yet to be heard from...
...circus instead of a cemetery is Little Joe, also eight. Within ten days, isoniazid ended his unbearable headache and loosened his stiff spine and neck. Now Little Joe is the life of the men's ward at Winslow Indian Sanatorium, first up in the morning and (complain the tired oldsters) the last to turn in at night...