Word: plaintes
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...Darien was stunned to realize that adults could be charged with a crime for serving liquor in their own homes. "A man's home is his castle, isn't it?" was the frequent plaint. Other parents in other areas might be equally surprised to learn that they were lawbreakers too. In many states, the law can be interpreted to forbid any person to serve liquor to an adolescent, whether in public or private. In other states, adults can be held culpable for such an amiable drawing-room practice on the grounds that they have contributed "to the delinquency...
...blunt in the title role, and David Wayne's Great Khan suggests a sage who is more than makeup-deep. But Zohra Lampert, as a princess who falls helplessly in love with Venice's merchant prince, is as woefully miscast as she is woundingly lovely. The recurring plaint about Broadway's producers is that they do not know a bad play when they see one. Marco Millions raises the question even more pointedly. Why, with all its own resources and innumerable classics to draw from, did the Lincoln Repertory directors shoot their...
...Congo crisis, as well as its extraordinary lapses of human judgment, as in its boys-will-be-boys disregard of such howling security risks as Burgess and Maclean. Since more than 90% of all its recruits are Oxford or Cambridge men, class-conscious Britons still echo the plaint of 19th century Reformer John Bright that the service is "a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the British aristocracy...
...Navy Seabees were bus ily installing a saltwater conversion plant which would ease the perennial water shortage, thus doing away with the "honeypot" latrines that have created a gleaming yellow man-made gla cier in the middle of the base. Navymen naturally echo the Rodgers-and«Ham-merstein plaint, "We ain't got dames," but ham radio at least gives them a chance to talk to wives and girls back home at less than the cost of a normal Stateside long-distance call. McMurdo's post office has even sprouted ZIP Code...
With a touch of bravado, the Ghanaian Times invoked on Kwame Nkrumah's behalf the classic plaint: "Save me from my friends; mine enemies I can take care of." This was putting Nkrumah's plight too simply. From the way things were going in Accra, Osagyefo could no longer tell which was which...