Word: complain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seven others have more to complain about. The U.S. owns 87% of Nevada's land, 73% of Arizona, 72% of Utah, 64% of Idaho, 53% of Oregon, 51% of Wyoming, 46% of California...
...island, once self-sustaining, may be short of food. Government monopolies (inherited from the Japanese) and fixed prices for island products make it next to impossible for anyone but the government to export. Imported consumer goods are priced beyond reach of the average Formosan. "The Chinese are squeezing us," complain the islanders. "They put everything into their pockets. They act like people who don't plan to be around very long. The Japanese at least furnished us with the cloth and consumer goods we needed...
Three 'thoughts' would have been 'adequate,' as the critical praise word then was. There would have been nothing to complain of if it had been left at three. The fourth made the intolerable touch of poetry. With the fourth, the fun began." Few others but Frost would have seen and described the quality of true poetry as "intolerable" and "fun" at the same time...
With reason, most U.S. colleges complain about the stormy financial weather they see ahead. Nevertheless, last week a few windfalls blew in: ¶ Massachusetts Institute of Technology received $5,100,000 from alumni. Biggest gift: $1,000,000 from General Motors Board Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr., class of '95, for a new metals-processing laboratory...
Lockout. In Trenton, N.J., the state supreme court, dismissing Mrs. Lillian Brown's divorce suit, ruled that since she had changed the lock on the door and refused to let her husband in the house, she could scarcely complain that he had deserted...