Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Serpas' complaint, which led to the district attorney's charge, is that Dr. Heiman induced labor prematurely, at 7½ months, and used forceps improperly. Said the doctor's lawyer: the birth came after 8½ months, Heiman found Mrs. Serpas already in labor and did all that any doctor could have done...
...California cop (Van Heflin), checking a routine complaint about a house prowler, takes a shine to the complainant (Evelyn Keyes), a nervously bored housewife whose well-to-do and aging husband works as an all-night disc jockey. Loyal but lonely, she resists Heflin as long as she can, finally succumbs to him in an affair carried on against the background of her husband's chirrupy voice plugging commercials on the radio...
...Bratton, soaking his swollen right hand in a bucket of ice water, complained glumly: "You gotta hit 'em to make 'em respect you . . . and it hurt too much to hit him." Jubilant Kid Gavilan, first Cuban ever to win a world title,* happily verified Bratton's complaint: "He no never hurt...
...election in August, 1948, has been thorough. Few Koreans want to suffer from the reign of terror which may strike anyone who proclaims anti-Rhee views. Charges of corruption and "dictatorship" are not the only ones which opposition parties are continually throwing at the Rhee faction. The major complaint is that the government is ineffective and its leaders incompetent in solving Korean social and economic problems...
...twelve cases in which the operation had been performed. Four cases had died; eight others had been kept alive by the administration of de-soxycorticosterone and cortisone, given in place of adrenal hormones. One patient went ice fishing in New Hampshire a few weeks after the operation; his only complaint was that he got uncomfortably cold, which was to be expected because the body's conversion of food into heat depends, in part, on the activity of the adrenal glands...