Word: complains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven years no delegate has been so roundly denounced or so contemptuously pointed at as Imre Horvath, Foreign Minister in Hungary's puppet Kadar government. One morning last week, Imre Horvath rose to complain: "A number of delegations have rudely and disgracefully offended the government of the Hungarian People's Republic. The Hungarian delegation will therefore not participate in the work of the ... General Assembly so long as the discussion of the Hungarian question does not proceed in the spirit of the U.N. Charter." Then, packing up their papers, Horvath and his aides walked out.*"One Soviet agent...
...Boston apparently is a big town, the Yellow Pages comprise Vol. II, which our Superintendent, the Irish Mr. Cogan, expects to have in hand in about two weeks. If Boston were a small town, it would all be in Vol. I, but we really haven't a right to complain, as there're probably enough numbers to go on with for the time being, anyhow...
CHRYSLER PRODUCTION slump is worrying dealers, who complain that they cannot get enough cars to meet big demand, that Plymouth station-wagon delivery has not even begun. Dealers ordered 350,000 Chrysler cars in first month after introduction of new models, but Chrysler will roll out only 252,000 autos by January. Reason: strikes and production trouble because Chrysler rushed complete redesign of all models in 20 months v. normal lead time of three years...
...Point Canaveral, Florida, out over the Atlantic. While it might be easier to observe if fired due north, directly over the pole, inhabitants of Virginia or the Carolinas might be upset to find the earlier stages of the rocket dropping onto their front lawns. Fish, presumably, won't complain...
...almost openly hostile to the press, is at least partly to blame. Royal public relations are handled through a Press Secretariat whose tight-lipped refusal to discuss even a Balmoral barbecue forces newsmen to patch up stories from gossip, invention and half-truth. Important royal events outside the palace, complain reporters, are usually handled by bumbling local officials. Only when newsmen threatened to boycott Princess Margaret's recent African tour in mid-trip was she allowed to make news by mingling with the natives, thus realize the tour's main aim: to publicize Britain's ties with...