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Word: complained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Indians smoldered, they really could not complain. Bharata was a legendary Hindu hero so revered that his name became the Sanskrit word for all India, and after India became independent in 1947, traditionalists put into the new constitution this opening sentence: "India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States." Even today, India's state-owned radio uses Bharat in Hindi-language programs, but, as one Indian put it, "It is one thing to hear a Hindi-speaking news reader say 'Bharat,' and another to have it leap up at you in print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Drop That Name | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...will-any more than a patient in the adjoining medical or surgical wards can do so. But nobody is restricted because of mental illness alone: he must show definite signs of disturbance. When he does, the patients (at daily meetings) are usually the first to complain of it, vote to restrict him "behind the clock" (on the boundary wall between ward and corridor). It is by the patients' own decision that razor blades and pointed knives are not left in accessible places on the ward. Collectively, at least, the patients' internal controls are excellent. Adds Dr. Errichetti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Open Door in Psychiatry | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...garrisoned the free territory. But since then, Rome has turned a deaf ear to proposals that some of Italy's innumerable state-owned enterprises be moved to Trieste and that the city be granted the privilege of importing raw materials and exporting finished goods duty-free. Triestini complain that Sicilian-born Giovanni Palamara, Italy's prefect in Trieste, shrugs off their troubles by saying, "My own island suffers more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Tears Over Trieste | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

Nagging Wives. "Sure, we sometimes sell PX goods on the black market," admitted one. "But doesn't everybody?" Another Korean wife voiced what most of them believed was really behind it all: "The truth is that the American wives dislike us very much. They are race-conscious, and complain they have to stand alongside us for service at PX counters . . . Those who are married to high officers nagged away at their husbands to have something done about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: The PX Affair | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...healthier than women, in the sense that they complain of fewer illnesses and stay home from work less often. But women are hardier and live longer. Dr. Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr., 41, reporting this seemingly contradictory finding (by a New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center research team), explains it thus: women have fewer of the serious disorders (notably heart and artery diseases) that kill men in their prime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Stronger Sex | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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