Word: gripe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said her colleague, to gripe...
...foot soldiers' longstanding gripe against hazard-duty pay for fliers, submariners and paratroops finally got attention on Capitol Hill last July. Last week the foot soldiers took a hard look at Congress' decision and groaned...
Afternoons, he is in the field, barreling across the desert in his official Lincoln sedan, to ordnance depots and training camps. Often, when soldiers gripe about their miserable pay (10? a day), the commander in chief turns out his pockets and hands out all the money...
...longer are apt to be mild and safe. With the "higher" learning there is implanted the fear of being a bit too stodgy. Schools seem to be producing precocious technicians who lean to believe life is long on treachery, short on rewards. Everywhere, almost, one hears the reiterated gripe against life. Students wallow in private resentments. The flair for evil things some students enjoy is more than a by-product of neurosis...
Competitors also gripe because seldom, if ever, does Kiphuth bother to take along all his top performers to a sold-out away meet. Yale now holds most of the national records for 50-yard pools and (by picking on insignificant small-school opponents) most of the 40-yard pool records. Word among swimming schools is that the only way to get the Elis to visit at full strength would be to build a pool with no previous records--say, an egg-shaped one, thirty-seven yards long...