Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RAILROAD-GOUGING complaint by the Government, charging that 700 U.S. roads overcharged the U.S. as much as $3 billion for military shipments during World War II, has been thrown out by a unanimous ruling of the eleven-man Interstate Commerce Commission. The ICC ruled that all rate agreements were legally made before authorized agencies and, further, that charges were actually considerably lower than comparable civilian rates at the time...
Rule of Thumb. In Cairo, Egypt, after listening to the complaint of Mrs. Zeinab Hassanein Eddine, 22, that her husband had slapped her, Judge Sheikh Mahmud Mikawi granted a divorce, ruled that although a husband may beat his wife with a cane "no thicker than a finger," he must not strike her on the face, which "reflects the beauty of woman...
...Brooke, misses most of the opportunities for the broad comedy of the second act. But he has his accent pretty well under control, pronounced and yet distinguishable. Keith Gardiner, as Lexy, with the smallest part is unexceptionable. Were all the players as adequate as Gardiner, there would be less complaint...
...thousands of traditional and often secret herb remedies. For serious ills they might seek treatment by a doctor versed in acupuncture (TIME, June 2, 1952), in which special needles are thrust into the body at a specified angle and to a certain depth, and in surprising places considering the complaint (to cure headaches, the needle may be thrust into the great toe). Sometimes combined with acupuncture was cautery: searing the skin with burning wormwood leaves...
...Play. In Cape Girardeau, Mo., arrested for running through a stop sign, Dr. Paul G. Wolff followed the police car to headquarters, paid a $7.50 fine, then swore out a complaint charging Sergeant Clifton Bess with speeding...