Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first the Reds had portrayed themselves as victors, the U.N. as humbly begging for peace. But the tone of their propaganda had changed to one of whining complaint. They now accused the U.N. of being autocratic and arbitrary. When, during the five-day lapse, the Peking radio accused Ridgway of refusing to set a date for resumption of the truce talks, even illiterate peasants could reason that, if Ridgway could turn the talks off & on at will, it was he who had the whip hand...
...other good Wagnerites still felt cheated, longed for a few more props and a lot more light. Their complaint: they had to spend so much energy searching for characters in the gloom that they could hardly concentrate on the music...
...arriving in Singapore last week on his Pacific tour, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey had a complaint to make. In a speech before the bigwig Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Dewey fished out a clipping from the English-language Singapore Straits-Times. Its front page carried a bannerline story and a four-column photo of the Cicero, Ill riots (TIME, July 23). Complained Dewey: "I am shocked to find that an incident of racial prejudice involving a few hundred people out of a nation of 150 million people is front-page news in Singapore...
...years, North Dakota's clangorous Republican Senator "Wild Bill" Langer has thumped loud & long as a one-man lobby against new federal appointments. His complaint: North Dakotans are the finest people in the U.S., yet not since statehood (1889) has any native Dakotan been appointed to an uppercrust federal job. Last week Bill Langer was happy. The President nominated, and the Senate quickly confirmed, a wealthy North Dakota grain buyer and farmer as ambassador to Nicaragua...
After burying its nose in the book publishing business for more than a year, the Federal Trade Commission leaned back and issued a complaint last week that was a bestseller along U.S. Publisher's Row. The Commission charged that Doubleday & Co. and five other publishers* violated federal antimonopoly laws by allowing the book clubs to sell their books at cut-rate prices, while retailers were required to sell the same titles at fixed prices...