Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radical styling changes will keep it right up with the pack. Beyond higher horsepower, revised grilles and molding sweeps, all models from Plymouth through Imperial will be virtually unchanged, allowing the company to concentrate on higher production, better distribution and quality control to eliminate the one serious complaint of 1957: lack of structural rigidity, which engineers hope to solve by strengthening the frame...
Into John Foster Dulles' fifth-floor office in the State Department, and onto the Dulles carpet, walked Presidential Disarmament Adviser Harold Stassen. Preceding Stassen was a sheaf of crackling cables from U.S. embassies in Western Europe. Stassen, the complaint ran, had pulled a diplomatic blooper, and the European allies were miffed. The blooper: Stassen, after promising Western partners that he would consult with them before making any specific disarmament proposals to the Russians, had launched into private talks with Russia's disarmament representative, Valerian Zorin (architect of the Russian takeover of Czechoslovakia...
...years he has been a snickering outsider ("to take business seriously is a kind of disease") camouflaged as a docile insider in the pseudo-Gothic spires of Manhattan's Tower Mutual Life Insurance Co. Abe's disease might be diagnosed as undulant barricade fever, the nostalgic complaint of an ex-free-lover, ex-radical newspaper editor and ex-Wobbly. The newest totalitarianism, Abe decides, is Total Security. As the whale of social conformity begins to swallow him, Abe utters little burps of independent thought...
Once discovered, this fact was quite painless, for the discovery came with a built-in awareness that the good life could not be taught, but only learned. The only complaint he could lodge against the University's peculiar efforts at filling his head according to formulae was that they claimed too much for the process...
...traditional complaint against grades--the psychological effect of continual measuring--is noted here, but never becomes an important argument...