Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back page the same day, the Post ran a Hatlo cartoon showing a saber-toothed dog tearing the pants off "Mailman McMucilage." As dogs do every time, the man-eater struck a "cute 1'il WoozyOzzums" pose when the postal inspector arrived to investigate McMucilage's complaint. Nevertheless, the harm was done. Hatlo had sabotaged the paper's campaign...
Badly, says Sebastian de Grazia, a layman, in Errors of Psychotherapy (Doubleday; $3). His complaint: the psychotherapists are ignoring moral values and man's "communal nature." Badly, says Psychologist Robert Lindner in Prescription for Rebellion, out this week (Rinehart; $3.50). His complaint: the psychotherapists are still hogtied by old ideas about moral values and the need for men to be like each other to live together...
...Asian countries propose that the problem be discussed by the General Assembly. The U.S., which has supported France in its noninterference position, is now wavering. Members of the U.S. delegation recoil before the accusation from the small nations (and the U.S.S.R.) that the U.S. is refusing to let a complaint even be heard...
Chairman William Cartwright mopped his brow and thought a moment. What was the now-lost customer's complaint? Something about "Light Brunswick Green"? The chairman sent for a can of the paint in question. There it was, marked with the firm's label, "Light Brunswick Green." He opened it. The paint was bright...
Indignantly, Stevenson echoed a complaint by Dean Acheson that Ike had unfairly accused the Secretary of State of "writing off" Korea in a 1950 speech. "I am frankly astonished that my opponent stooped ... to the practice of lifting remarks out of context'. . . Why did he skip the Secretary's further pledge that if there should be an attack on these countries, 'the initial reliance must be on the people attacked to resist it and then upon the commitments of the entire civilized world under the Charter of the United Nations'?" Far from "writing off" Korea, said...