Word: gripes
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Favorite place--library; favorite joke--the Harvard football team; favorite pastime--philosophical discussions; favorite gripe--colleges with spirit...
...prospect of death he learned to ac cept, and he seldom talked about it. But he could gripe about the hardships. Each echelon claimed that the men to the rear were "fat" with luxuries. The man on the line envied the man at battalion because he usually slept on a cot and lived in a tent and had three hot meals a day. Battalion thought regiment "had it made" because there the men rode around in jeeps. The soldier assigned to regiment wished he was farther back at division, where it was safer, where there were showers, Korean houseboys...
...marine, like an old soldier, always finds something to gripe about. So Lieut. Colonel James Potter Rathbun promptly found something wrong with Washington, D.C. when he was ordered there for duty at the Marine Corps Institute. His gripe was novel, even for a marine. The fishing was terrible...
Good Marines. Like good marines, Rathbun and Smith did more than gripe; they tried to do something about the situation. Other fishermen must be having the same trouble, they reasoned. Why not draw decent road maps that would tell people how to get to good fishing grounds? For the next few weekends they toured the highways and backwaters of Maryland. They talked to farmers, truck drivers, bartenders, charter-boat operators. Soon they had so much information that they changed their plans: Why not make a map that would tell fishermen everything-where to go for different fish, what kind...
...widow," he is going ahead with his charts. The corporation has already blocked out the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Morehead City, N.C. Wind, weather and enemy gunfire notwithstanding, the partners hope some day to cover every fishing area in the U.S. Rathbun still has a minor gripe: charting fish keeps him too busy to do much fishing...