Word: complaint
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...Stranger in the Earth, Watch for the Morning)-is upset by discord between Catholics and Protestants. Unlike most Catholics who launch into print on the subject, he thinks that his own church-particularly the church in the U.S.-deserves a good deal of the blame. Author Sugrue's complaint, in the Protestant Christian Herald: the church is mixing in affairs of state and it has no business there. It began to go wrong when Christ's teachings about spiritual authority in man's subjective "inner world" began to be extended to the "outer world" of temporal power...
...that the four airmen were safe in U.S. hands again, the State Department launched the cracking down. The Hungarians were ordered to close their consulates in New York and Cleveland; U.S. travel in Hungary was banned. Possible next steps: confiscation of frozen Hungarian assets in the U.S., and a complaint in the U.N. against Hungary and Russia for violating human rights. It was a measure of the times that the world's most powerful nation was powerless to do much more...
...Vishinsky's ire got no further than his laughter. The Political Committee rejected his complaint, by 39 votes to 5. The U.N. recessed for Christmas, after six weeks of debate. Vishinsky, returning to Moscow, bore few fruits of victory to present to Stalin. Key U.N. votes...
...conference table. The Reds objected because the list was written in phonetic English.* "A pile of rubbish," they called it. The objection was odd, for the Communists had been furnished with lists of their prisoners all along through the Red Cross, and had never previously registered a complaint. Nevertheless the U.N. agreed to translate the whole list into Korean and Chinese characters...
...strain that runs through the verse volume is one of complaint at overcrowding in the Yard. For instance, an excerpt from the year 1909 deals with Emerson Hall thus...