Word: complaint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...husband. For women, two important points already arise. First as to her age. If at all possible, an experienced patient will avoid giving an age between 40 and 60, for it is part of the acknowledged armory of modern medicine to hold the climacteric responsible for all complaints arising in this period of a woman's life. The absence of specific symptoms is immaterial...Every complaint from toothache to corns may be explained by ovarian deficiency, and thus held to be merely functional-a consideration which delights the doctor but has never yet cured a patient...
...Fred and let it go at that. But Boston has become a hub for child psychiatry, and at the center Fred and his mother found sympathetic help. His trouble was common enough: "school phobia," the psychiatrists and social workers called it. But they well knew that while the complaint may be common, the cause is different in each case...
...Soapbox. The addition of soap operas to American culture has been under constant attack for years. To every complaint, the soapmakers have a crisply pragmatic answer: they are written as they are because that is what their audience wants. When asked what he thinks of his soap operas, P. & G.'s President McElroy, no steady listener himself, is apt to get up on one of his own soapboxes: "The problem of improving the literary tastes of the people is the problem of the schools. The people who listen to our programs aren't intellectuals - they're ordinary...
...Denver, the press is billeted at the Brown Palace Hotel. The main complaint, says Darby, is "the working hours that the President maintains." He gets to his Lowry air base office about 7:45 most mornings. "This means that reporters have to leave the hotel around 7 to check in at the base and catch the first visitors and business...
...degrees in research economics from Duquesne University), but neglected to say that he was a Negro. After encouraging replies, Dowdy went to Chicago only to be told by Field's that it was "lamentable but true" that the store hired no Negroes. Dowdy's complaint was handed to Chicago's Commission on Human Relations, whose enforcement powers are limited to public contract but whose public hearings can be powerful in dealing with private business. Field's, faced with an implied threat of public hearings and a supertight labor market, relented and wrote the commission that...