Word: gripes
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...howled about the high peaks of the French Alps, whipping the mountain snows into white fury, keeping skiers and tourists at home. In the valley below, one day last fortnight, the rival guides of fashionable Chamonix and humbler St. Gervais gathered as usual to down their morning grog and gripe about the weather. High over their heads, the pilot of an Air India...
Their explanations were vague. Hickenlooper mumbled that Pike was a "square peg in a round hole," added later that Pike had always been opposed to the H-bomb. "I don't know what their gripe is," Pike declared. "Whatever the reason was, it wasn't stated either directly or by innuendo." Last year, because "we didn't have the dope in front of us as to what we would be getting for what we were spending," he had been doubtful about the H-bomb, he added. But "as the facts came in, my attitude did change...
...Women gripe about the two types of men most commonly found in American colleges; the utter conformist, and the sloppy person who wants only comfort from his clothes. A less often seen man is the show-off. He will put anything on his back that he thinks will draw attention...
...earnings from concerts, radio and records might come to $75,000, but expenses would "cut my gross income in half." Also, she told the Saturday Evening Post, "there is a little man with a big book down at the Internal Revenue office-but who am I to gripe about taxes...
...features too, which can hardly be avoided. Visitors, for example, complain that the dining room is unfriendly-looking, that the House is divided into two distinct parts by a wide stretch of lawn, and residents must eat the mass-produced food of the central kitchen, perhaps the most-deserved gripe...