Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer weather?begat a mood that the many sensed but few could rightly define. It was relaxation to the English, détente to the French, distensione to the Italians, and if everybody else didn't feel that way, the West Europeans weren't interested in listening to the complaint...
...graded noncommissioned officers, among whom re-enlistment attrition was critical, were most resentful of their dwindling prestige and authority. Their complaint bore out a report of a joint-services study committee, headed by Rear Admiral J. P. Womble Jr., which found there had been a serious "dilution in mili tary authority and leadership." Said the Womble report: "The committee unanimously concludes that the professional standards have been permitted to deteriorate through lack of effective disciplinary control...
...claimed the network had misinformed him, that he had been protected all along against punitive damages. Said ABC, revealing that Winchell has asked to be taken back in the fold and been rejected: "There is no basis of fact in Mr. Winchell's complaint...
...complaint: truce inspection is a farce, for only the U.N. observes it. Not a Sabre jet leaves Korea, not a howitzer is junked or a Patton tank replaced on the U.N. side, without its being reported to the NNSC and thence, via the Czechs and the Poles, to Pyongyang, Peking and Moscow. U.S. soldier replacements disembarking in Korea are greeted by Communist officers, who click them in with hand counters as they march off their Army transports. Yet on the North Korean side of the truce line, an immense and illegal buildup has gone on unchecked...
MICHELANGELO complained about noise and marble dust in our profession," says Sculptor David Smith, "but I finish the day looking like a grease monkey." Sculptor Smith's complaint reflects the rise of a new phenomenon in the art world: a flood of wire and metal shapes that is turning many a sculptor's studio into something resembling a blacksmith's shop, where the oxyacetylene torch has replaced the hammer and chisel, a welder's mask the smock...