Word: complains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brockton, Mass., the dog-catcher heard a woman complain that a puppy had been peeking in her window every night...
...days (if he could get the lead out of the pants of the zombie who did the work)-that the only paper available would be usable if not ideal-that we would somehow manage to get him enough gelatin for the press roll ers-and that we would not complain too bitterly if his inferior ink smudged some of the illustrations...
About the only objections to the original sequences is the treatment of the "Stage Door Canteen" number, in which a broken-hearted soldier tries to act lovingly toward his girl-to-be-he-hopes-except-for-the-hostess. Ordinarily we would be the last to complain about a little romance, but when we realize that the girl in question is really another soldier and maybe even the first guy is top sarge, "it looks sort of pointless--or worse...
...manager finally fired them. They couldn't complain because the other guy would have heard the other guy's voice...
...Saud's representatives for direct participation in the oil exploitation. This, if it went through, would be historic -for the first time in its history the U.S. Government would embark upon a career as a speculative oil magnate on foreign soil. Nor could New Deal "anti-imperialists" readily complain, for this was a pet project of oilman Harold L. Ickes...