Word: complainingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Keef saw Truman and then told reporters that the President was neutral. He did not complain that Truman should support him because there were more delegates in the Kefauver column than any other. Said Kefauver: "I think that [neutrality] is the proper attitude for him to take...
Paris critics admit that Painter Bedikian, 44, knows his business, but most consider him an artistic reactionary, complain that "his work adds nothing to the general history of art." A small corps of Bedikian boosters disagrees. One enthusiast, writing in the financial daily, L'lnformation, has even called him "one of the great names of tomorrow . . . the heir to the old masters and the greatest modern painters...
Elizabeth Smart, of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, digressed from denouncing beer to complain that she had seen some mighty low-cut necklines ("They dropped almost off the shoulder") and to disapprove of Groucho Marx's pretending to misunderstand a lady who said she was a skip-tracer.* Quipped Groucho: "You're a stripteaser? That's fine. I'm tired of this namby-pamby stuff...
Perhaps there is nothing reprehensible about writing a book claiming to support and to have long supported a foreign policy against which one has always voted and continues to vote. Possibly it is out of order to complain that Taft's last campaign for the Senate was run in flagrant defiance of the laws regulating contributions and expenditures, even though Taft is the loudest howler for honesty, efficiency, and economy in government...
...Stay-Downers. All of the "stay-downers," like Goodwin, are reserve officers, most of them World War II combat veterans with growing families, mortgages and civilian careers. Besides their personal problems, they complain that regular officers are hogging the soft stateside jobs while reservists go to Korea, that the planes they must fly are often poorly maintained. Flying, said one, "has developed into a poison for me." Others are simply disgusted with the Korean stalemate. Said one stay-downer: "We don't see any sense in giving our lives for a cause that even the civilians are completely apathetic...