Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruckus. Britain's Randolph Churchill picked a fight with his wealthy countrywoman, Lady Docker, and screamed aloud: "I didn't come here to meet vulgar people like the Kellys." A learned representative of the French Academy, Europe's high temple of culture, launched a formal complaint when Monaco's Prince refused to permit the reading of an ode especially written for the occasion by Academician Jean Cocteau, on the grounds that it was too effusive. Highballing away the nights and days in their hotel suites just as though they were in the good old Bellevue-Stratford...
...Secret. The school grew out of a complaint made by General Henry ("Hap") Arnold during World War II. Too many officers, Airman Arnold said, know too little about the needs of the other services. In 1943, the Government set up an Army-Navy staff college to help the two services understand each other better. In 1943-45, Washington brass began to think it might be a good idea if the services and the State Department also understood each other better. In 1946 they set up the present National War College (named by then Army Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...letter asked Clive R. Grey, NSA Vice-President on International Affairs, to publicize their complaint through the international press, inform UNESCO and the Commission on Human Rights, and send an investigating commission of the International Student Conference to Paraguay...
...design a house for him on Belvedere Island in San Francisco Bay (construction starts this week). Mohr rents Architect Donn Emmons' own house, high on a hill above Mill Valley, overlooking the bay. Neither of these glasshouse enthusiasts had a stone to throw at the architects. The only complaint came from Ralph, Mohr's half-dachshund. In the Emmons house, with its two-story living-room windows, the second floor is a mezzanine, and the only staircase is a ship's ladder with polished brass railings. Ralph could climb up with a great deal of wheezing...
...other hand, said Dr. Hodges, medicine has a legitimate complaint about premature reporting. "Newspapers latch on to a morsel of partly cooked medical news and serve it up to the reading public in its raw state. Your new 'cancer cure' may be simply a study of enzymatic action on malignant cells until the eager-beaver writer gets wind of it. By the time he tries to present you to the readers as a latter-day Pasteur, your medical society is ready to drum you out as a snake oil salesman...