Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...names of close kin. It may get so bad that he forgets the names of common articles, so that when he wants a pen he will ask for "something to write with," though he can pick the right name out of a list. Nerve specialists have given this complaint a number of names; the University of Virginia's Dr. Cary Suter. who has studied it closely, likes "anomic aphasia" best...
Four-fifths of his cases had been misdiagnosed or overlooked, said Dr. Suter, and he urged doctors to be on the watch for this complaint, because it is one of the few symptoms that may give a clue to the location of a brain tumor. But he had a hopeful note: anomic aphasia is much less common now that middle-ear infections are so readily controlled by sulfas and antibiotics. And anybody who fails to remember the name "anomic aphasia" for more than a few minutes need not worry about...
Pakistan's complaint is the latest of a series of bickerings that have kept Hindu and Moslem in a state of near-war ever since the British raj departed in 1947. And like most feuds between India and Pakistan, its roots reached back to partition-to the ingenious, twisting line drawn by Britain's Sir Cyril (later Lord) Radcliffe to divide India (pop. 350 million) from the widely separated halves of the Dominion of Pakistan: East Bengal (pop. 42 million), in the steamy Ganges Delta, and West Pakistan (pop. 33-5 million), a rain-starved country bigger than...
Charge & Countercharge. Pakistan, like Egypt, lives by irrigation: its rivers are its life. When the Punjab's canals yield plentiful water, Pakistani peasants harvest three good crops a year; when the canals run dry, the peasants are apt to starve. Pakistan's complaint is that India has dried up eleven vital canals by diverting water from the Punjabi head-streams to its irrigation schemes...
Within a matter of minutes, the mother was "having words" with the school principal. She soon found that hers was not the only complaint. Other parents, too, were wondering about that science class. What, they wanted to know, was Teacher Louis L. Pund trying...