Word: complainingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could watch Bill Hart galloping noiselessly across the prairie, and shudder at the sight of Pearl White lashed to the railroad tracks. But when radio invaded the U.S. home, children began to absorb this kind of nerve-jangling opiate every day and, when it was refused them, to complain as bitterly as if they were denied nourishment...
...postwar vogue of the T-formation on gridiron after gridiron has made the old-fashioned single-wing formation seem almost like a relic of the days when players drop-kicked field goals. But a lot of spectators have been grumping about the trend. With the T-attack, they complain, football has become a game of "Button, button, who's got the button?" It takes a good grandstand man to tell...
...comic artists, Capp seems to attract readers in well-defined layers, each stratum as distinct as the segments of a pousse-café. Not all of them love him-some of the most virulent prose of the last decade has come from outraged Abner readers who have written to complain that he is undermining 1) the U.S. mind, 2) the nation's morals or 3) the Constitution itself...
...Some viewers of the CBS system complain of "color flash" when they look away from the screen. CBS officials point out that the eye quickly becomes adjusted and that color flash (caused by the persistence in the eye of the last one-color picture seen) soon disappears...
Stuffing four people late one of the center's rooms creates an atmosphere about as congenial as a subway during rush hour, they complain...