Word: complains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view that in total war there was no essential difference between civilians and soldiers, and that the bomb itself was an effective force, warning Japan to surrender and thus to avoid total destruction. It seems logical to me that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians...
Oldtimers could complain that something was missing. Champagne and luxury limousines were war victims; women had to wear their "1938 best"; high taxes had forced the Warwickshire Club to sell admission tickets for the first time in history. But much glitter had survived...
...seam-starting seas of the Skagerrak. The 16 Estonian refugees-seven men, five women, four little children-who had wedged themselves into the Erma's tiny cabin had no visas, no charts of the Atlantic, no food but potatoes, cereal, bread and canned fish. But they did not complain. After years of war and wandering, they were going to America...
Died. Milton Snavely Hershey, 88, philanthropist, founder of the Hershey Chocolate Corp. and the Hershey Industrial School for orphan boys; in Hershey, Pa., the company town (neighboring Pennsylvania Dutch farmers sometimes complain of "da chockle shtink") he founded in a cornfield in 1903. In 1937, after having transferred his assets to the school (enrollment: 1,000), he said: "I have in the world, now, my clothes, my furniture, a few securities, and nothing else...
...thousand American girls" as she is about her getting the Van Horn hands on "a fur coat and a swell watch"; 4) someone should tell Private Van Horn what part intolerance played in starting the war she was just in; 5) she'd be the first to complain if those who have it didn't spend it; 6) what's so much more essential about a fur coat and a swell watch than a debut?; 7) "damn" and "hell" are unbecoming when used in the same sentence by a lady in service who shows such interest...