Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carville inmates decided to fight. Angry protest meetings were held. The Patients' Federation drafted a 2,500-word letter of complaint to PHS headquarters, sent a lawyer with it to Washington. Last week the patients won a clear-cut victory. PHS decided to shift Dr. Gordon, 52, to his 20th assignment...
...still Stan's life, and he intends to stick around as long as he feels his playing is paying its way. He is now pushing 36, and when Manager Fred Hutchinson moved him from right field to first base early this season, he spoke not a word of complaint. He figures he is still nimble enough on his feet, but he knows, too, that sooner or later every man slows down. "Besides," says he, "first base is a nice place to visit with people." He chats amiably with opposing runners, horns in on their conversations with their coaches...
ANTIMONOPOLY COMPLAINT against Fruehauf Trailer Co., largest producer of truck trailers, was filed by Federal Trade Commission. FTC charged Fruehauf, which has increased revenues by 200% since 1949, had swallowed competitors illegally, was getting strangle hold on industry by offering special financing deals...
...strong advocate of expanded foreign trade, he helped write this year's highway-construction bill, was a leading Democratic critic of the ill-fated Dixon-Yates contract, called vigorously for a real investigation of the lobbying scandal on the natural-gas bill (but accepted party discipline without public complaint when he was shunted aside as chairman of the committee investigating lobbying activities and the investigation was steered into a bipartisan blind alley). As a border-stater, Gore is acceptable to both North and South. One of Harriman's top advisers, Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio, speaks especially...
...spinnaker run most of the way. He never hesitated to use that tricky tactic, downwind tacking. "We like to tack downwind," says he. "We keep her footing that way." Whenever the wind shifted a few degrees. Geib jibed, kept running dead before the breeze. The skipper had only one complaint: "During the last leg, every time I took the helm, the wind would die." Unwilling to push their luck, his jovially mutinous crew kept him below for as long as possible...