Word: griping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local operating companies' "let's talk" lines, which were begun last year to explain the twists and turns of the breakup. Nonetheless, since the first of the year the Federal Communications Commission has received 14,000 letters of complaint about phone service, 400% more than usual. Biggest gripe: slowness in installing new lines. The central message in most of the mail has less to do with actual shortcomings than with a changing attitude toward the phone company. Says an FCC staffer: "People feel the phone company is less friendly. If the new companies squander the service image that...
...this magazine sure needs a cure. But only a blow-torch could render it pure. I'd throw it out, in the compactor yet. But they're going to publish a bound volume set. Oh, they're stronger than me. They'll print volume seven, While I grumble and gripe from a cloud up in heaven...
Fortunately, as the vituperative and caustic Milly, Elise Marks manages to salvage the show. Partly because of the nature of her role, but more importantly because of the professional sense of control she demonstrates. Marks turns Milly into a bigger-than-life character. Milly doesn't simply gripe, she bitches; she doesn't simply betray, she backstabs. Mark's frequent comical tantrums and pouting fits provide the play with the energy it so desperately needs...
...back in the morning, for $23 each way. This put them on a priority list of People's incoming passengers. But, said McConnell, so many other line squatters had done the same thing that priority might not mean much. "You get rather paranoid," he said. The major gripe is that the airline does not carry over stand-by lists from day to day, so that time served is not rewarded...
Before last year, if you had a gripe about a College policy, chances were that you would carry it around your entire Harvard career, talking about it, losing sleep about it, and eventually graduating without having done anything about it. Now, there appears to be a better way. If you'd like, you can aspire to become an influential member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council, about to begin its second year as the first-ever fully recognized and budgeted student government in Harvard's long history...