Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sarit came into prominence as a hard-drinking, hard-wenching army field marshal who once showed up at an embassy dinner party in Bangkok carrying his own liquor, with the complaint that his host's hooch was second rate. Cirrhosis of the liver and the responsibility of power calmed him down. Though he once was involved in various devious deals, he slashed corruption to the minimum. "He wants his name in the history books, not his money in a Swiss bank account," an observer explained...
...with 2,440,000.* His Hochi Shimbun (circ. 600,000) is the country's biggest sports daily. With two other dailies and three magazines, Shoriki's empire grossed $74.5 million last year, and though post-tax profits were a rice-paper-thin $550,000, he had no complaint. Shoriki's television ventures in Tokyo and Osaka netted $2,300,000, while his horse-racing and golf-course enterprises and his Yomiuri Giants batted in another...
...ambush. As a result, badly needed reinforcements often hang back for fear of walking into a trap. Such a war is a new and frustrating experience for U.S. military advisers. Mindful of the fact that 73 Americans have lost their lives in the fighting so far, their most bitter complaint is that military operations are constantly hobbled by political considerations. The big command decisions have to be cleared with President Diem, who still leans heavily on such members of his family as Brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, and the beauteous Madame Nhu, for advice and support in the struggle against...
...Jackson, with only 18 months to go before completing 20 years of service and becoming eligible for a pension of $260 a month, was forced to resign from the Corps. So were Szili and two other officers who had helped bury Lopez. Jackson, said Szili, has made no public complaint because "he is a very patriotic man and I think probably he doesn't want to do anything that might hurt his country...
Green filed complaint under a Colorado anti-discrimination law, and Continental fought the case. While the complaint moved through the courts, Green worked as a pilot for the Michigan highway department, ferrying VIPs from place to place, quit in protest against inadequate foul-weather navigation equipment on state planes. To support his wife, who is white, and his children, he went to work cleaning milk cans in a dairy...