Word: gripe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some strange reason, Author Hargrove seems to feel that he needs this thesis to write a fictional sequel to his famed funnybook of World War II, See Here, Private Hargrove. Fortunately, it scarcely clutters up the plot, and Author Hargrove is soon back on the grin-and-gripe days of basic. While the rover-boys-in-training-camp is not exactly fresh comedy material. The Girl He Left Behind is still good and sufficient grounds for an evening's trial separation from...
...rise, when the shadow of horror fell on all writing by and about Germans-this book makes at least one group of Germans seem truly human and amusing. For whatever else they were, Gunner Asch suggests the Wehrmacht soldiers were also members in the brother hood of the gripe, card-carriers in the great privates' international...
...some bigheaded, bandy-legged, ivy-green men from Mars with a secret weapon and a gripe against Marxists took over Earth, wiped out all the Communists and went home, how would things be? Much better, no doubt. But last week's news brought wholesome reminders that even if Communism were erased, old Earth would still have plenty of troubles...
...that score, moviegoers of all sorts and ages have the right to an honest gripe: movies about India might do well to be more faithful to history. The truth about the British raj* might make hearts pound -and turnstiles whir-far faster than they do at the conventional buncombe under the banyans...
...gripe is often legitimate. In six years, the U.S. shipped $254 million worth of machine tools to Europe. But European imports died down after Europe's machine-tool output soared from $481 million in 1948 to $778 million (in 1948 dollars) last year. Imports of machine tools into the U.S., less than $1,000,000 a year before the war, were $5,900,000 in the first quarter of 1954 alone. Exports, meanwhile, have dwindled from a prewar average of 32% of total output to a scant 6%. Electrical equipment makers complain that overseas manufacturers, many of them helped...