Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thousands of Hollanders were ready to swear that Simon W. J. Schaasberg, whose shingle proclaimed him a "psychometrist-homeopath," had cured them of every complaint in the book, from stuffy noses and hemorrhoids to pneumonia and cancer. For years, the sick had packed the tiny front room of Shaasberg's house in Maastricht. The street was sometimes blocked by cars and chartered buses that brought patients from afar. No less remarkable than his popularity were Shaasberg's methods...
...settle the matter once and for all, the Overseers held what was known as "The Trial at the Harvard Club" and President Lowell himself appeared in the role of defense counsel. He took an unequivocal position in support of Chafee's right to espouse an unpopular cause, and the complaint was dropped...
...British technicians packed up to leave Abadan, London sent a belated distress call to U.N. headquarters in New York. Attlee's government requested an immediate Security Council meeting to consider a British complaint against Iran for endangering international peace and security...
...discussion period following the films suffers from the common TV complaint of too many participants, too little time, too much simplification. But the experts are uncommonly successful at stripping away some of the witch-doctor illusions about psychiatry, and at blasting psychoanalytic cliches ("Oddly enough, children from happy homes are sometimes the most unfit; they take their parents' happiness for granted and don't learn what hard work goes into it") Blonde, 43-year-old Isabel Leighton, who edited a 1949 bestseller, The Aspirin Age, is an ex-war correspondent and actress who first took up psychiatry...
Since a public complaint might do me harm in other police states, such as Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, etc., please withhold my name...