Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commonest medical complaint of the U.S. tourist is diarrhea, which may be a simple, short-lived discomfort or, in the form of amoebic dysentery, a severe, life-threatening disease. Last week, though Mexicans stoutly insist that their country is not so bad as others to the south, Mexico City's local government took a major step toward eliminating what is variously known as turista, the Aztec two-step, and Montezuma's revenge. In the capital's big, sparkling new Jamaica Market, and in a dozen smaller ones, watchful health inspectors installed a rigorous system of spraying fruits...
...popular is a new nonprescription tablet made by Ciba Pharmaceuticals called Entero-Vioform (an antiseptic containing iodine). A lot of these treatments, Mexicans hope, may become unnecessary as a result of the chemical warfare in the markets. Everyone was cheering the campaign last week except the vegetable vendors. Their complaint: the disinfectant withers the outer leaves of lettuce and romaine heads, making them highly antiseptic but less salable...
Pete Reider, who has been bothered throughout the season by a wide assortment of ailments, will once again be unable to run. His current complaint is a nagging chest cold which will necessitate a chest X-ray for the Crimson ace some time during the weekend...
...expert" opinion. Promptly things start going wrong. Lopatkin, who has given up schoolteaching and is now wholly dedicated to the cause of drainpipery, falls victim to a mysterious bureaucratic runaround. Months and years pass in a silence punctuated only by official notifications: "It is not considered possible . . ." "Your complaint has been forwarded to . . ." Occasionally Comrade Lopatkin is summoned for discussion, is shunted from one official to another. Repeatedly he comes close to success only to be tossed into the street again. Gaunt, shabby, despairing, Lopatkin struggles on, ignoring hints and muttered warnings, until one day he finds himself sentenced...
...vote of 66-0 with a single abstention--Liberia--the 82-nation Assembly approved a recommendation of its Steering Committee that it take up the Syrian complaint that a threat exists to Syrian security and also to world peace...