Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With A.S.D.E., the International tower will be able to follow planes right up to the unloading point, avoid the danger of collision on the ground. The only complaint so far is that the new radar is a little too sharp-sighted. Recently a truck was sent out to investigate what looked like a dangerous obstacle. It proved to be a fringe of grass that had poked up a few inches through a crack in a runway...
...Kefauver Committee, flabbergasted at what its investigation had done, went to the FBI with an angry complaint: Reporter Brennan had got the secret testimony from the stenographic service that was typing the record by posing as the new "office manager" of the Kefauver Crime Committee. After Ray Brennan's indictment last week, Milburn P. Akers, executive editor of the Sun-Times, which is supporting Eisenhower, brushed off the charges as politics. Asked Akers: "Why . . . the long delay? Could [it] be the consequence of the fact that the Sun-Times ceased its support of the present administration in the interval...
Comments: Spanish A is not a gut for the beginner. The main complaint seems to be that the novice is forced to compete with veterans of two or three years of high school Spanish and therefore placed at a distinct disadvantage at the outset. To atone for the "simplicity" of the language, assignments are rather long and a large vocabulary must be acquired early. Furthermore, because this course is usually taken as a means of passing the language requirement, it tends to attract apathetic students and therefore lacks much of the interest of advanced courses...
...Later in my life I encountered representatives of these tribes on the field of battle. Never once, never once in all the campaigns of Europe with 3,000,000 Americans under my command, never did I have occasion to hear a complaint about the battle conduct of the North American Indian . . . The workaday chores of peace are far more difficult to carry out, and often require greater moral courage, great necessity to defy friends, a greater readiness to sacrifice . . . than even some of the most desperate chores and tasks...
...suffered with dignity and without complaint, an auto da fe of criticism such as few men . . . have ever endured." But, I think, the years in passage have justified much of what he stood for; and, if time has washed away the shouting bitterness of other years, we can still look back and say-there was a gentleman...