Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaint against the U.S. is not so much-as your Nov. 16 article suggests-that your policy is inspired by principles [as] the fact that there is more "obvious self-interest" about it than the rest of the world can stomach . . . British Socialists and Tories alike regret the American failure to base its policy on a moral purpose which "needs to be wider and last longer than an alliance based upon direct, obvious self-interest in a transitory local situation." Immediately after the war, the Americans were far more determined than we were to destroy Germany; they were ready...
...Slight, 42-year-old Jerome Morris felt irascibility building up inside him during his whole three months as the superintendent, meter reader and one-man complaint department of the Cleves (pop. 1,981), Ohio water works. He had to work ten, twelve, sometimes 24 hours a day at his $69-a-week job-partly because his predecessor had run off with $4,300 in water funds. Morris' work increased when drought taxed the water system's wells. On top of all this, the town paid him on the first and third Monday of the month, and he kept...
Parental indifference is a schoolteacher's traditional complaint, but Brookline educators cannot claim that the townspeople ignore them. Throughout the fall the Brookline schools have faced attacks for teaching children hand-printing instead of handwriting. The controversy has filled the P.T.A. agenda, rated banner headlines in the Brookline Chronicle, and inspired the Boston Globe to print a picture of three little girls whom it quoted saying wistfully: "We can read writing, but we can't write...
...Clark left St. Louis in May 1804. Long before their return in September 1806, they were presumed to be dead, and it was a fair presumption. Many of the Indians were friendly, but there were plenty who were not. The travelers were repeatedly attacked by grizzlies. Another common complaint was "Louis Veneri," which could be "contracted from an amorous contact with a Chinnook damsel." Clark dutifully reported that "the Chin-nook womin are lude and carry on sport publickly...
...spite of his lack of experience, he is one of the shrewdest labor men around. He has never been known to show anger when dealing with the University, yet he usually gets what he wants. He will back anyone's grievance to the limit, providing the employee with the complaint will follow him into the offices of the administration...