Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Kelly Jean McCormick, the adopted daughter of Tacoma (Wash.) Psychologists Archie and Alma McCormick, was only 3½ when she came sobbing to her mother with an unusual complaint. Her closest friends, all aged five to seven, were learning to read and write, and bright (IQ 147) Kelly Jean wanted to go to school. "I'm so ignorant," cried she. "I can't stand it." The McCormicks decided that they would indeed send Kelly Jean to school-but not to any ordinary one. Their adopted son Jimmy, who also had an IQ of 147, had been...
...bitterest French complaint was that the United States and Britain had acted without consulting France. But the plain fact was that for two months the U.S. had been warning France that something would have to be done about arms for Tunisia...
...more than half her 67 years the woman patient at Chicago's Holy Cross Hospital had enjoyed excellent health, had never needed surgery. Now, as doctors tried to diagnose Mrs. W.'s recent stomach complaint, her husband recalled that 37 years before, while washing dishes, she had been seized with cramps and collapsed on the floor. A physician had called it intestinal flu and put her to bed. For almost two weeks she had been very ill, sometimes in a coma, and had to be forcibly fed, but then she made a fine recovery, raised...
...opinion of physicians, most of whom are men, micromastia (abnormal smallness of the breasts) is neither a very serious nor a very common complaint, but a great many U.S. women seem agitated about it, some to the point of severe neurosis. In San Francisco last week, the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery was divided over the desirability of a drastic remedy: surgery to pad out the breasts, using either body fat or a spongelike synthetic...
Today the churchman's complaint is no longer that the bodies of the workers are being sweated, but more likely that their souls are being stifled in too much benevolent prosperity. Where Rauschenbusch preached the need for social organization, his successors deplore Organization Man. It is not so much that the Social Gospel is dead, but that it has been assimilated. The light Rauschenbusch lit half a century ago still burns in the activist, cause-conscious heart of U.S. Protestantism...