Word: gripes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little gripe with the Athletic Department last Saturday which I almost was prepared to forget. For the Dartmouth game I was assigned seat 18 on row RR in section 35. I might add that I am a junior and that my application was in on time...
...rebuff sent most reporters off to gripe among themselves in the Homestead's bars. But not U.P.I.'s James Srodes, 29, a former Atlanta Journal political reporter. Trying not to be noticed, the 6-ft. 5-in., 280-lb. reporter poked about for ways to eavesdrop on the superspy-and stumbled into his story. Wandering into the kitchen, Srodes was amazed to discover Helms' speech being amplified through a kitchen intercom so that the help would know when to clear tables without disturbing speakers. In his talk, Helms described Ho Chi Minh as "an utterly cold-blooded...
...usual, the inmates are restless. They gripe endlessly, snarl out of the sides of their mouths and generally brood up a storm. Finally, the boys in isolation decide to do something about it. They bust out, take over the cell block and hold the guards as hostages. The object of the whole thing is to stall for time so that a few of the riot ringleaders (Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Ben Carruthers) can tunnel under the wall and make a break for freedom...
Sometimes the teachers at the Carpenter Center can drive students to incessant nail-biting and general anger. In all the design workshop, including Mirko's own, people gripe, "He's absolutely incomprehensible and he just wants us to do everything...
...followed the 1961 call-up of reservists during the Berlin crisis, the armed forces were better prepared this time. As a result, there have been far fewer complaints about inadequate facilities, shortages of equipment and weapons or lack of something useful to do. Nonetheless, the men find plenty to gripe about: after all, they were moved abruptly from what sociologists call a goal-oriented society into the tell-'em-nothing, keep-'em-busy world of the military...