Word: complains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of armed robberies, burglaries and thefts run 40% beyond the 1956 rate, while four out of five robbery victims reported that the holdup men were Negroes. One day last fortnight, seven Negro businessmen called on Kansas City's Police Chief Bernard Brannon to complain that robberies and burglaries in the Negro district were threatening to put them out of business. Suddenly, Chief Brannon thought he saw his chance...
Despite all their advances, there is a practical limit to how much the railroads can accomplish alone. Railroaders complain bitterly that the Internal Revenue bureau's taxmen take no account of their progress. The new diesels and freight cars are still depreciated at 20-year rates, but because of the industry's rapidly advancing technology, they must often be junked in ten years or less. And the railroads are forced to pay many other taxes that competing industries avoid. While the New York Central's stations were once monuments to prosperity, now they are millstones, costing...
...characters seem wooden, one can say that they are so because they are symbolic. If Alonso's people are not emotionally sympathetic, it is because they are mouthing their problems so intensely that they don't have time to be people. And it would be wrong to complain that Alonso is too ambitious, because that's what we need more of around here...
...first week of Indonesia's corruption-ridden and strife-torn eighth year of independence, there was much food for thought. The huge island of Sumatra (whose oil and rubber provide two-thirds of Indonesia's export revenue) was in open revolt against the government. Sumatrans complain that the national government, sitting in the Java capital of Djakarta, is too Java-centered.* Last week in North Sumatra, three of four government regiments were reportedly rallying to the support of Rebel Leader Colonel Maludin Simbolon, once the rising star of the Indonesian army, who is in hiding in the hills...
...never having felt keen pain. When one of his fingers was crushed in an accident, he bit it off. A spreading abscess which threatened his life evoked no pain even when it was lanced. Cataracts were removed from both eyes without an anesthetic. Only on his deathbed did he complain of a little discomfort...