Word: gripes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Industry, too, has begun to benefit from speeded speech as a time- and labor-saving device. For example, when you call the phone company to register a complaint, chances are that you're talking to a machine, who will record your gripe and play it back to the operator in speeded speech form. One frozen food company has put a computer to work taking orders. Once the order has been restructured in compressed speech form, all the preliminary formalities have been worked out, leaving the operator time to fill two or three times as many orders as usual...
...Northern Moslems, acting to avenge the Southern-led January coup that had thrown them out of power and killed many of their leaders. It was also designed to forestall another coup, which dissatisfied Southern Ibos had reportedly been plotting against the regime they had put in power. The Southern gripe was simple: Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi, an Ibo himself, had proved too soft on the Northerners...
...Loeb opened, and the uncomfortable administrative arrangements that were born with the theatre have not yet evolved into anything more conducive to good drama. Harvard organizations seem to run on discontent, but nowhere in Cambridge is so much unhappiness so openly displayed as at the Loeb. Everybody has a gripe, and often it's a serious one. Freshmen and sophomores complain that a "Loeb clique" has taken over the building; experienced directors bewail the lack of talented actors; and many students are extremely unhappy about Harvard's administration of the building...
...attack on waste, inefficiency and inflation brought on a minor recession earlier this year. Yet by last week industrial production posted an estimated 4% overall gain for the year. Many Brazilians still gripe about this year's 45% rise in the cost of living, but businessmen give Campos a rousing cheer, and foreign investors are registering their votes with money. Alcoa is planning a $50 million aluminum project, Volkswagen is spending $100 million to double its 60,000-car annual production, and Ford is building a $30 million plant that will turn out all-Brazilian Galaxies...
Penkovsky's memoir-smuggled out of Russia on one of the secret routes that carried Abram Tertz's and Boris Pasternak's works westward-is gritty and gripe-ridden in its condemnation of Moscow's upper-echelon morals, and filled with "revelations" presumably intended to compromise Soviet agents...