Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mamie's beaver coat was merely another of the thousands of gadgets, gimcracks and articles pressed on Presidents and their wives by well-meaning U.S. groups. (Ike once got a readymade flower bed.) The chief complaint, if beaver does come back, may come from U.S. husbands who have hocked themselves for mink...
...appoint every member of the Senate. But thanks to Haile Selassie, they were there in the Parliament, empowered and even encouraged to voice the will of their constituents. For the people of Ethiopia, it was a major improvement on the past, when the only way to make a complaint or get a petition past the Emperor's guardian bureaucrats was to toss the document into his car as it rolled along the streets...
...Middle East, privately urged the Syrians to accept Saud's good offices. (The sole exception: Egypt, whose President Gamal Abdel Nasser regards Saud as a dangerous rival for leadership of the Arab world.) Then the word from Moscow-"An effort to evade U.N. debate of Syria's complaint," snarled Pravda-got through to Intelligence Chief Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj and his fellow leftists in the Syrian government. In an abject turnabout, President Kuwatly hastily got off a message begging Saud to withdraw his offer...
This has provoked angry predictions from London art experts that his masterpieces are in danger from the salt air. Niarchos brushes off this complaint: "On my yacht, sea air and water never reach the paintings. The rooms are air-conditioned, with temperature and humidity controls. Filters control the inflow of air, which is always pure, and smoke from cigarettes is immediately expelled by adequate installations...
PIPELINE INVESTIGATION by Justice Department will look into charges that some of the 52 pipelines owned by 36 major oil companies, which signed a 1941 consent decree, compete illegally against independent oil companies that pay to use pipelines. Sample complaint: that pipelines pad their rate base to pay excessive dividends to their owners which in effect amount to rebates on carrying the owners...