Word: gripes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making of the mayor was also powered by batteries of mechanical equipment. A two-way short-wave radio system was hooked up between the hotel headquarters (code name: "the Mansion") and cars used by Bob Price ("Adolf") and Lindsay ("Benjamin"-for Disraeli). And there was "the gripe line," a special number on which New Yorkers could log their complaints...
...they wouldn't rationalize, they did not hesitate to gripe a little. "We've got good men and good coaches," Dockery said. "So does the rest of the League, out Dartmouth, Princeton, and Penn recruit actively. Harvard doesn't tap high school ball players; they first have to show some interest in coming here for other reasons...
Farmers complain that the government-dictated prices are so low that it is not even worthwhile to harvest their crops. Unions gripe bitterly about low wages and increasing layoffs in the auto, appliance and textile industries. Manufacturers complain that consumers are not buying, are waiting for prices to go down farther...
Usually Greeks don't gripe in movie theaters. But last week in Athens packed houses were howling, hissing, booing and whistling in disgust. Zorba the Greek was having its first showings. What the audiences took most unkindly to were scenes that portrayed the people of a small village in Crete uniting to support the knife slaying of a young widow outside church and the robbing of a harlot on her deathbed. "Cretans should do something. This is disgraceful," declared Athens' daily Estia. The Pan-Cretan Union in Athens declared the film monstrous and insulting...
...society are frankly bourgeois in character. These people look, talk, act, live in all essential respects like middle-class men and women in the nations of the West. They eat in good restaurants, tool around in streamlined automobiles, scoff at the more grandiose pretensions of the Soviet space program, gripe a little at the "administrative fools" who run the labs they work in. And pipe this. The women wear false eyelashes in bed. Karl Marx wrote an awful lot of words. It seems that now by eating them ihe Russians may get plump...