Word: griping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understand Governor Wallace's gripe about the article, since it certainly gave him credit where credit was due, which is much more than anyone else has done...
Grocer's Gripe. Every capital in the world has its gripes about highhanded diplomats who use their immunity to avoid legal reckoning. In Bonn the problem is heightened by the fact that some 95 embassies, legations and missions are crammed into one of Europe's smallest, most provincial capitals. High-living diplomats do not ease the tensions with their late, loud parties and cosmopolitan ways. But what really throws the shopkeepers of Bonn into a xenophobic rage is the unpaid debts run up by diplomats-particularly those from nations receiving German economic...
Public complaints used to be crimes against the revolution-but today Cubans are permitted to gripe out loud...
...incorrigible booster who plugs for the preservation of "our outdoor heritage intact and unspoiled," Ainsworth has only one continuing gripe. His official beat excludes Los Angeles, and the city is growing so fast (current pop. 2,600,000) that his own territory keeps shrinking. "I'm losing ground all the time," he says, "and one of these days I may be crowded up against the Colorado River...
...gouged just for state income, the sport could be killed." Says a New York racing official: "If it's money they want from pari-mutuels, why don't they just run a bunch of mice around a track twelve months a year?" Even a few bettors gripe. Says one: "I don't care what the longer season does to horses. What does it do to humans? They're giving us too much opportunity to lose...