Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ambassador, Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, arrived in Moscow to take up his post, Molotov sent his chief of protocol to the airport to shake his hand. The same day he talked for 49 minutes with the British ambassador, and asked after Foreign Secretary Eden's gallbladder complaint. With such small gestures, and vague hints of bigger ones to come, did Vyacheslav Molotov peddle his latest bill of goods marked "Peace...
...Butler aide said last month in Washington, "and we stop buying breakfasts." But after years of austere pessimism Britons had devised their own modest standards of what constitutes "recovery." When egg rationing was abolished last week, no music was sweeter to British housewives than a London grocer's complaint: "Eggs, don't talk to me about eggs. They're a drug on the market...
...Tulane University neurosurgeons described a simple and seemingly successful way of treating syringomyelia, an uncommon but hitherto baffling complaint in which a cyst forms in the spinal cord, gradually causing paralysis. The technique involves using a wire of the modern wonder metal, tantalum, to keep the cyst open and draining. Unlike materials previously used, tantalum does not change in the body or interfere with body tissues. Three living testimonials appeared at the New Orleans meeting...
...Earth) filed suit for a whopping $51,750,000 damages from 17 film companies, two producer associations, 20 top-ranking cinema executives (L. B. Mayer, Howard Hughes, Dore Schary, Sam Goldwyn, et al.), nine Congressmen (including the committee's current Chairman Harold Velde), and two committee investigators. The complaint: that their being named on studio blacklists (for such things as refusal to answer the committee's questions about their political beliefs and affiliations) has made them jobless pariahs in filmland. The outcast 22 demand a permanent injunction against "maintaining any blacklist or policy of blacklisting or discriminating against...
...West German Foreign Office received a complaint from the Yugoslav embassy in Bonn charging that British Novelist Evelyn Waugh had "crudely insulted" Marshal Tito in an article written for the weekly newspaper Rheinischer Merkur. The story concerned the time Tito received his first marshal's uniform hat as a gift from the Russians. Wrote Waugh: "I well remember the day when Tito wore it for the first time. It was on the island of Vis, where he lived in August 1944, under the protection of our Navy and our Air Force. The hat was not made to order, according...