Word: gripes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seniors, for the love of God, when you’re about to gripe about your third chapter or grumble about your advisor, hold your tongue. Talk about something, anything, else instead: the Gold Medal fiasco, the hottie in your Warren Court section, Boston’s crappy weather. Even Crossroads would be a more appreciated, exhilarating conversation topic. And to everyone else out there not writing theses, resist the (incomprehensible) temptation and don’t ask about them. You know you’re not really interested, anyway, and your feigned curiosity only perpetuates the misconception that anyone...
...Democrats have the momentum in the budget war? Not quite. Gephardt and House Democrats have the luxury of being able to gripe from the sidelines. They're in the minority; House Speaker Dennis Hastert and his GOP colleagues run that chamber and have to get a budget resolution through it. But the Democrats control the Senate. After the howling over Bush's budget quiets, Daschle has to produce a budget that the Senate will pass if Democrats want to be seen as a credible alternative to Bush and his spending plans...
Fast-forward thirty years. Now, when we gripe about the woes of sports, we complain about ego. We complain about pride. We complain about the obnoxious scowl Latrell Sprewell puts on after he dunks, about endzone dances and casually flipping the bat after jacking one to left center. But should...
During the Civil War, average Americans did not demand constant knowledge of the inner workings of Lincoln’s cabinet. They did not gripe when they did not receive advance warning of the president’s policies, and they did not complain about not knowing the Union’s military strategy. All that was required to satisfy Americans then was a clear statement of the government’s intentions: the defeat and re-incorporation of the rebellious states into the Union. Now, however, citizens feel that they have the right to know what goes...
...some point or another, everyone thinks about taking a baseball bat to the radio. There's nothing on the air, goes the traditional gripe, aside from the latest flavor of mainstream pop, hard rock and hip-hop. It's a sterile teenage wasteland spanning the dial, disrupted only by the odd college station...