Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What every hospital dreads most is a mixup of patients' charts, which may lead to the wrong treatment or operation. Thanks to elaborate precautions, it rarely happens. But in Chattanooga's Federal District Court last week, attorneys filed a gruesome complaint asserting that Harrell F. Huggins had-been a double victim of wrong surgery in just such a mixup...
...Harvard football team, remembering last year's 54-0 loss at New Haven, was somewhat amused by Olivar's complaint, for Yale has never been known to call off its agents while they were in the process of inflicting humiliation on a traditional rival...
...writing this letter not by way of complaint: I know how hard it is to get facts of this sort accurately reported. My purpose is simply to set the record straight. In closing let me thank your reporter for quoting the description of me as a "notoriously independent thinker." In this day and age I can thing of no greater compliment. Paul M. Sweezy...
Monty led off the chorus of complaint with the charge that NATO was "complicated, cumbersome and grossly overstaffed . . . an enormous waste of money and effort." NATO's next Supreme Commander in Europe, he declared, should be French, not American. Yet Europeans are the ones most insistent on a U.S. Supreme Commander because he guarantees the U.S. commitment on the Continent. "The fact is," said Montgomery, "we are really not an alliance . . . We are a group of nations unable to agree how to get where we want...
...scarcely broke stride. "A dirty deal," he cried to one newsman, and threatened to back up his complaint by playing his much-publicized tape. "People may want to make a sacred cow out of this boy Elliott, but they'll want to hang him, yessir, hang him, when I tell the true story on this deal." But at week's end Leo made plans to leave Australia. The tape, he explained lamely, was in Tokyo, "so how could I play it here...