Word: complainingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe therefore that even from your point of view you have no reason to complain. The University Corporation was to my mind narrow-minded enough when they added "enemy casualty." I should have thought that the "American Ideal" (which you make such a point to hold up) is broad enough to include the German chaplain's name without "enemy casualty." Arthur Freud
...experts who were supposed to answer any question about anything. During a dry run, one of the first questions asked was: "Who is the mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico?" Shrugs Goodson: "What can you do? It doesn't make sense to have a show like that and then complain that the questions are unfair...
They further complain that they are assigned, for the most part, dull descriptive and definitive papers, and are forced to write in a dry, choppy manner...
...labor pool is deep. (Mechanical cotton pickers, for instance, and other labor-saving farm machinery are expected to displace 2,000,000 field hands by 1965; many of them will be available for factory work.) The South's labor population is young and quick to learn. Employers who complain that they have to scrape the bottom of the labor barrel in the North find they can pick, choose and train the brightest of young Southerners...
Boyle was not alone; many another reader had written to the newspapers to complain about Detective Dick Tracy's suspiciously high standard of living. Their question: Has the nation's favorite funny-page detective been a grafter all these years? The uproar was so loud that it reached the ears of Tracy's strip father, Cartoonist Chester Gould. He decided to have Pat Patton, the strip's police chief and Tracy's boss, call Tracy in last week for an explanation. Even from Dick Tracy, the nemesis of criminals for 20 years, it sounded thin...