Word: gripe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army, lookee here; we had a nice juicy gripe which we've been nursing for five months and were all steamed up about it this week, but it looks like moves are being made to fix things. Of course its you melodious and spirited Stat, Corps boys who are the butt this gripe...
...Dear." We write this at 0615 one morning while still mad, but we in Mellon know youse guys is really swell people, so we humbly suggest reveille calls inside the dorms instead of in the alley, and musters back of Glass Hall before 0700. Thanks, Army, for hearin' our gripe...
...Washington a common gripe has been: "They'll be rationing water next." This week, WPB is considering a plan to do just that. U.S. water consumption is up an unprecedented 30%. Pumping facilities are strained to the bursting point. In many war centers-Detroit, San Diego, Newport News, Cleveland, Buffalo, Louisville-new facilities have been installed, but dangers of a shortage are still acute. War production wallows in water. Nearly 80 tons of water are needed to manufacture a ton of ingot steel, 236 gallons are needed to make one gallon of alcohol; 125,000 gallons are needed...
...confined in penitentiaries, subjected to corporal punishment or any form of cruelty. They have regular complaint courts to vent POW frustration. They are still soldiers, maintain their own military discipline, salute only their captors of superior rank. They live like soldiers - but in a cage - and they gripe like soldiers...
Slow Law. The Rogers Bill, long delayed but due soon for a vote, will make the WAACs full-blooded members of the Army, give the girls their rights. No law is needed to give the girls one Army privilege they have been quick to grab: the WAACs can gripe like veterans...