Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friends of Harry Truman, Lippmann recalled, resented preconvention complaints that Mr. Truman was not equal to the presidency of the U.S. "A complaint of that kind is almost impossible to prove," observed Lippmann, "as long as the President remains in Washington within the majestic structure of his office . . . But now the country has Mr. Truman's own estimate of how necessary it is for him to exercise the functions of the presidency...
...York Yankees had the worst charley horse he could remember. He wore a thick bandage over his left thigh (to support the strained muscles) and a second bandage around his middle to hold up the first one. Said Joseph Paul DiMaggio, more in simple fact than in complaint: "I feel like a mummy...
...chief complaint arises from the House masters' policy of preserving balance in their various domains by admitting numbers of Sophomores while Juniors stay festering in Aploy, Dudley, Clayerly, or Little Halls. Although it is hoped that all Juniors and Seniors will be assigned to Houses in the next few weeks, it is of little consolation to the unfortunate of last year, this year, and probably next year, that balance is preserved in the House which postpones his admissions...
Meanwhile, at University Hall, the mechanical difficulties seemed to be contagious. Late Saturday, one of two IBM calculators blew a main pin while sorting exams and clattered to a stop. Sunday afternoon its twin came up with the same complaint and abruptly creased to tabulate exam results...
...heroes of a great moral war march home with a repertory of invective almost tragically thin and banal. Like any other Christian soldiers, they used a great deal of foul language in field and camp, but very little of it got beyond a few four-letter words . . ." This complaint, in which Burges Johnson concurs, would be perfectly sound if cursing were entirely a verbal matter, but it is not. Its effect is proportionate to the kidney of the curser. The four-letter banalities that bore Mr. Mencken might suffice to turn him pale when uttered in foulness of spirit. Likewise...