Word: gripe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week came an angry gripe in Literaturnaya Gazeta from a Siberian housewife who demanded that Leningrad stop sending its prostitutes 2,735 miles to Irkutsk and surrounding villages. The housewife was especially upset about a young lady named Tosca, whose fame was so great that it preceded her arrival in Siberia. "Won't this piece of goods find admirers even in a new place?" asked the matron. "She probably will. I know that the wives of a few Bodaibo miners, for example, asked the 'authorities to stop sending the likes of Tosca to Bodaibo. This desire...
...have only one gripe. At two press conferences, the President has been allowed to laugh off charges of "managed news." Why are your correspondents not pinning him down with specific questions and forcing him to publicly face this issue...
Since the Roman legions began murdering their commanders in moments of pique, soldiers everywhere have considered it their basic right to gripe-even if not to take more forcible action. And the U.S. Army reservists and National Guardsmen called up last fall as a symbol of the Kennedy Administration's intent to stand fast in Berlin have certainly availed themselves of their squawking privileges. Yet last week a gangling...
...even finished Troy High School, 73 miles west of Columbus. He was so big when he entered Troy-a rock-solid 195 Ibs.-that school officials had to send out mimeographed copies of his birth certificate to quell complaints from rival coaches. Soon the coaches had better reason to gripe. After dropping its first three games during Ferguson's freshman year, Troy never lost another while he was around. College recruiters, awed by Ferguson's ability to gain as much as 470 yds. in a single game, swamped him with offers. None were as persuasive as Woody Hayes...
...Student Government Association. For the past several years, the SGA has suffered from a fuzziness of purpose inevitable at a college where most students feel that few battles remain to be fought. Although SGA meetings could be effective forums for student opinion, they have dwindled into trivial gripe sessions. This year at last there are signs of a change; for this very reason the Student Government Association must be careful to explore all structural possibilities and sound out student views rather than settling for an unimaginative re-working of the existing organization...