Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...S.O.B. as applied to a certain showman and think that, considering all the circumstances, it was very well applied." There was no great outcry from churchmen and no noticeable explosion from the public, all of which caused the anti-New Dealing New York Sun's George Sokolsky to complain virtuously: "The reaction to the President's language is indecent, even more indecent than the remark itself...
...Force has tested its pilot bed only on the ground and in the bombardier's compartment of a B17. Eleven pilots have ridden in it snugly battened down for eight hours each. They report that the bed is comfortable, but complain of boredom because of restricted movement...
While creating a novelist's mood, Callaghan drops a few loud hints. An English professor tells Tyndall about the new men's residence that the university needs; other faculty members complain of overcrowded classrooms. Even the university's library is mentioned. "I have to wait in line, and find that I can't get what I want," says a philosophy professor. "If you die with a million, Tyndall, why don't you leave it for a library...
Charlemagne, who thirsted for culture as much as for conquest,* left his personal stamp on the manuscript art. He used to complain that the prevailing script was too knotty to read; to rectify it the Emperor invited the Northumbrian monk Alcuin to teach the Franks a comparatively simple hand inherited from the days of Roman rule. The script did not stay simple: by the 13th Century, manuscript texts had become as tangled as briar patches. The gnarled letters of ladies' prayer books were twined about with ornamental thorns, and even the page borders swarmed with children and gargoyles...
Considine became a newspaperman by accident. He started out as a Government messenger, typist and clerk in Washington. When the old Washington Herald spelled his name wrong, in an amateur tennis tournament, he went to the paper to complain-and got a job as tennis reporter...