Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward Bloomberg, president of the company, originally filed the complaint with the C.A.B. last August, urging that the return flight from Europe be cancelled. At that time the complaint was rejected, but Bloomberg refiled it a few weeks ago. He charged that Besso collected $1200 more than the cost of the trip from last year's passengers and that he has never refunded this excess. According to C.A.B. regulations, such flights must be non-profit. Besso, however, claimed yesterday that he had sent out refunds last month, too recently to have been discovered in Bloomberg's investigations...
...British doctors described last week an extraordinary case of the medical use of hypnosis, in which the patient held himself in unnatural and seemingly most uncomfortable positions for a total of seven weeks, with nary a complaint. The case history, as reported by Psychiatrist Denys Kelsey and Surgeon John N. Barron in the British Medical Journal: a man of 24 had lost part of his right foot in an accident; to help repair the damage, skin was to be grafted in two stages-first from his abdomen to his left forearm, then to the foot. The surgeons feared that...
...while the graft took. The next stage was tougher: the graft was cut loose from the abdomen, and the arm was laid across the drawn-up right foot. Again, the same commands. After plastic surgery under a light analgesic, the patient held this grotesque position for four weeks without complaint. He could even feed and bathe himself, walk with one crutch. The four weeks over, the graft had taken on the foot. Barron cut it loose, and Kelsey gave the order: "Unlock it." The patient did. His arm, despite its month's fixation, was fully flexible and painless...
...always writing that I'm a back-room operator. They say I'm sensitive. How would you like your little daughter to read that you are a 'backroom operator,' a 'wirepuller' or a 'clever man'?" Again and again comes the complaint: "People don't understand ..." But his wife Lady Bird* does. Says she: "He is the most complicated, yet the simplest of men, and sometimes a really sad fellow...
Most of all, Sukarno wants to be loved and admired. He is happy when surrounded by schoolchildren; it delights him to keep statesmen waiting while he listens patiently to a ragged old woman's complaint. He likes the traditional things of his national life, from Indonesian painting to puppet shows to dukuns (soothsayers). His favorite dukun, a ripe female named Madame Suprapto, last week offered him a particularly explicit prophecy: "The first big bomb will fall in Indonesia in March. The United States will intervene in the struggle between Padang and Djakarta, then the Soviet Union will intervene...