Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death. I've seen him freeze to death. I've seen him burned by napalm, mangled by bombs, crippled by bullets. I've seen doctors chop off his leg with only a cigarette to kill the pain, but I haven't heard a word of complaint yet. Accepting misfortunes without complaint or bitterness, he expects others to do the same. It can make him the most cruel creature in the world...
...janitors' complaint, the CRIMSON learned yesterday, is that they were offered by H. U. E. R. A. president Daniel G. Mulvihill a choice between either a 40-hour week with no change in total weekly pay, or a five percent raise with the same schedule of 40 hours one week, 44 the next. They chose the first in a vote held late last week...
...last week's hearing, Rayinski's counsel pointed out that the 1839 law under which the musician had been convicted provided that householders could call the cops and complain if street music became obnoxious; in Rayinski's case no such complaint had been registered. The court reversed the conviction...
...maintenance section of the airframes structures unit of the aircraft maintenance division. Final action will be taken by an officer in the design of cabin and cockpit enclosures section, after he gets authorization from the budget section to pay for a modification. Six months after the original complaint, the squadron can hope to get windshield wipers that work...
Bill for Improvements. More recently there has been another complaint about the system. In the first four months of this year, Pennsylvania Railroad accidents killed 83 people, injured another 792. (In the latest wreck, in May, in which eight were killed, the engineer was reported to have complete vision in only one eye.) All these grievances have left many Pennsylvania passengers feeling sure that the Pennsy wants to get rid of the job of carrying its 75 million passengers, devote all its efforts to moneymaking freight...