Word: gripe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrestling match is honest or not? Frankly, I can think of nothing duller than an honest quiz show, an honest wrestling match, or a play that captures dialogue exactly as uttered by real live people. It seems to me that the only group that has a legitimate gripe against-the quiz programs is Actors' Equity, not because the actors were underpaid but ' because they didn't join the union...
Luders' coup came just as the Cruising Club rule committee was sitting down to the thankless task of considering revisions of the formula. Loudest gripe is against the designers' most successful postwar innovation-short, wide-beamed center-boarders that not only run faster off the wind but also drive relatively well into the wind matched against their deep-keeled rivals, who have to give them time under the formula. Most famous of these boats is Olin Stephens' Finisterre, which all but revolutionized ocean racing by winning the Bermuda race...
Iron & Haggis. That again enraged British newsmen. But their biggest gripe was that President Eisenhower refused to hold a press conference, although he had done so in West Germany. In rebuttal, Hagerty stubbornly and rightly maintained that Eisenhower was not at the beck and call of the press: "The President of the United States is here as a Chief of State, and he makes his own decisions." (Beyond that, British Prime Ministers never grant on-the-record press conferences...
American Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, a four-star Army general at his retirement in 1956 after 38 years of commissioned service, smiled a thin smile in Omaha when reminded of the familiar G.I. gripe that officers have better luck than ordinary soldiers in dating Red Cross lasses on military duty overseas. Said Realist Gruenther, tersely: "They did, they do and they will...
...rich. Coming up from the bank, Shor said: "I got to the joint and started to tip the hackie a dime. I figured I ought to start acting like all those other millionaires. But I didn't have the guts to be cheap." Now, said Shor, whose pet gripe is the stinginess of the rich, "I got to be nice to them. They're my people." With only six weeks to get out and hustle up another site, Shor soberly made his second drink a short beer. "I'm saving in little ways. That...