Word: gripe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year they have a different gripe: labor disputes are plaguing the nation's overburdened crop distribution system at a time when bin-busting harvests and a high export demand augur a booming farm economy. Since late August the United Transportation Union and the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks have halted operations on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, which serves 1,680 grain elevators in the Midwest. And for almost three months a strike by the American Federation of Grain Millers has closed the 13 huge grain elevators in the port of Duluth-Superior, stopping...
Theresa D. Hord '82 said yesterday simple things like not being able to cross the street and having to catch the shuttle at Quincy Square annoy her most. "My gripe is that it has made things inconvenient for students. Things could have been done better," she said...
...workers are beginning to object to the clergy's heavy hand. They gripe about the censorship of movies and TV, the ban on alcohol and the increasing powers of the komiteh. Complained one worker: "It is almost like having SAVAK [the Shah's secret police], maybe even worse. I am beginning to watch my words in the presence of my children, because they might tell on me as a duty...
There is no reason to gripe about changing the spelling of Peking to Beijing. Beijing is much closer to the Chinese pronunciation. One thing we can do to get even is to ask the Chinese to quit calling the U.S. capital "Huashendun" and the current President "Kate...
...This gripe aside, let the individuals whose skills kept the listeners tapping their feet receive their due. The eight women in the cast generally asserted their characters better than the men--it was easier to remember them from one number to the next. But, merged into a company, as at the beginning and end of the show, it was the performers' collective energy and not their individuality that shone. Der Manuelian made "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" both the opening and closing number. It served well--the chorus has an unforgettable tune...