Word: complains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty last year omitted any such proposals from its vote on the CEP plan, a move of which Leighton said, "one cannot complain . . . but one may regret it. The CEP report, while offering loop-holes for interested Juniors who have failed their Honors qualifying tests, does not offer a "hopeful" indication that many will take advantage of this. "No provision is made for non-Honors Seniors," he reiterated...
Though the government insists that the $12 million spent on the Valley came mostly from voluntary gifts, Spaniards know better. Shopkeepers complain that government collectors had told them either to put up or shut down. Other Spaniards, traveling the nearby highway, grumbled about the tunnel five miles from the Valley that never got built; it was supposed to replace the treacherous mountain pass on which dozens of motorists lose their lives each year. While the big monument had all the men and machines it needed, nothing was available for the tunnel...
Some people have skins so sensitive that it is possible to write on them with a fingernail or the smoothly curved end of a paper clip. This extreme sensitivity, called dermographia ("writing on the skin") is the usual explanation when patients complain that they are "allergic to everything," two Little Rock physicians reported in the A.M.A. Journal. Although the condition has been known for years, it is often overlooked and causes a lot of needless doctoring...
...Critics. They think Mountbatten both arrogant and vain, criticize his habit of showing up last at meetings, when they say he grabs attention with just that little extra disturbance that the final arrival can create. They complain that Lady Mountbatten, the former Edwina Ashley, is a Socialist and a "do-gooder." By other critics, Mountbatten will always be remembered as the last Viceroy of India, who cooperated with the Labor government in presiding over the breakup of the British Empire...
...bulks largest in the recital, and Gielgud has his own touch of magic, not from any magnificence of voice or roll of theatrical thunder, but from a projection of feeling, a rush of psychological light. Moving from Youth through Manhood to Old Age, he plays many parts. Few will complain that he includes a host of warhorses-Hamlet's best soliloquies, Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, an abdicating Richard II, a sleepless Henry IV, a dying Lear and John of Gaunt. A few may wonder why Gielgud includes numerous sonnets and not a single lyric, only to decide...