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Word: complaint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fail to see the reasonableness of a complaint on the part of other European countries, who were allies on the victorious side over Germany, and are now laboring under worse economic conditions than Germany ... It is to the credit of the Germans hat with this foreign help−though not with he financial help alone−they pulled themelves up again. It shows the will to do better in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1954 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...Later, a Washington quipster observed that when Stevens entered the room, he was "like a goldfish in a tank of barracuda." Meeting No. 4 featured fried chicken, peas, french fries, head-of-lettuce salad and Joe McCarthy. Also present: Dirksen, and later, Potter. Stevens started with a complaint about McCarthy's abuse of Zwicker. Retorted McCarthy: How could the Army explain the court-martialing of "a poor, brainwashed G.I."* in contrast to the honorable discharge it handed to a "Fifth Amendment Communist"−Peress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Oak & the Ivy | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...sensitive boy, quiet and lonely, with a penchant for dressing up in women's clothing. Like Christine, he was drafted into the Army; unlike Christine, he found it too hard. In 1948 he got a medical discharge from the Army after three months' service, on his own complaint that he "didn't have the strength" for Army life, and on other findings of doctors who agreed. In New Orleans, where he lived most recently, Charles was regarded as an efficient bookkeeper and typist, but he had trouble holding jobs because of his effeminate ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In Christine's Footsteps | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...delay, insisted on considering the charges in a handful of letters opposing Warren's appointment. Some of the letters are obviously from cranks, none of them contains any evidence to support charges. The charges run all the way from saying that Warren is a crook to a complaint that as governor of California he followed "the Marxist . . . revolutionary line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bilbo of the North | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...London Economist lent its weight to the Australians' complaint in an article titled "Aboriginals in Fleet Street." "The Queen's otherwise triumphal passage [is being] marred by something for which neither royalty nor antipodean affection can be blamed. The fault [lies] with certain London daily newspapers . . . Several correspondents covering the tour have expressed the hope that they could return at leisure and really learn something. It might pay their employers to help them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Australian Boomerang | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

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