Word: gripe
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...biggest gripe was over maintenance. In 1939 the cost of repairing, greasing, parking, storing and washing the private motorist's automobile had totaled $462 million dollars. It rose to $577 million in 1941, sank to an average of $490 million a year during the restricted war years. But in 1946, hand in hand with other costs, it jumped to $814 million, in 1947 to $995 million and seemed certain to be more than a billion dollars...
Compared with Coach Leahy, Stu Holcomb sounded like Pollyanna. Ten of Purdue's eleven 1947 starters were back this year, including Quarterback Bob De-Moss, a fine passer, and Halfback Harry Szulborski, who averaged better than six yards a try in 1947. That left Holcomb only one understandable gripe: a schedule that pits Purdue against Notre Dame, Northwestern and Michigan in the first three weeks...
Arthur W. Coolidge, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusotts, condemned the Democratic Party as "a rag-bag of splinter groups, most of its members with either a greed or a gripe" in an address to the Harvard Young Republican Club in Emerson D last night...
...think the food at Harvard is good, in Eliot House where I live if not always at the Union. I have never found much to gripe at considering we pay only $11.50 per week board. In fact, I have always secretly thought that Harvard did pretty well to feed us for that in the face of high prices...
...within the H.A.A. itself. Investigations conducted by the Student Council and the Crimson disclosed that students were annoyed by the reselling of turned-in tickets in the cheering section to non-University purchasers, and by lack of early notification of a possible sell-out, not to mention the biggest gripe of all--seats in the end zone for the Holy Cross and Yale games...