Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first glance, the decision seemed to be a clear-cut victory for Autherine and the N.A.A.C.P. But the conspiracy charge, although probably a lawyer's stratagem to make a complaint as broad as possible, proved to be a blunder. It not only inflamed white opinion against Autherine, it also stiffened the attitude of the trustees...
Meeting that night, they formally accused her of making "false, defamatory, impertinent, and scandalous charges," and ordered her permanently expelled. Whether or not Autherine fully understood the legal complaint drawn and filed by her lawyers, the reprisal of the trustees fell on her alone. She was the only target within range of the board...
...orders that if I don't start laughing instead of cussing when I miss those shots, he's going to stop me from playing golf. So every time I miss a shot you're going to hear a haw, haw, haw." Ike's only real complaint was about his "football knee," a relic of his West Point days. "You know," he told Walter, after walking six holes, "my knee twinges now and then . . . First time in years...
...Chicago's Blackstone Theater one evening last week, Adlai Stevenson appeared backstage to congratulate Actor Melvyn Douglas on his portrayal of the late Clarence Darrow in the "monkey trial" play, Inherit the Wind. Critic Stevenson had only one complaint about Douglas' performance. Chided he: "You didn't have to look straight at me when you delivered that line about William Jennings Bryan." The line: "I wonder how it feels to almost be President three times, with a skullful of undelivered inaugural speeches...
...lend a reported $20 million to $27 million for imported equipment and machinery. As for the rest. Finance Minister Carlos Villaveces has promised that "the government will see this through, come what may." To help raise funds, the government recently doubled Cauca Valley land taxes, without a murmur of complaint from the hopeful landholders...