Word: griping
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...press didn't help their unity, either. Dr.Spock accused the New York press corps of trying to split the moderates from the coalition by overpublicizing its radical elements. His gripe was no Richard Nixon. At the Friday press conference, the questions--almost all of them--fell into three general categories...
...added: "We Democrats have never been known to suppress our differences. We do have different viewpoints on different programs. They have made that abundantly clear in their respective states. I made it abundantly clear that I ran on a platform that contained my commitments." As a result of the gripe session, he said, he would see to it that his administrators would "review with their own staffs these various programs and see if it is possible in any way to relieve the states of any of the burdens of administration." A bit snappishly, he told reporters: "No apologies were given...
...Medical School next week will begin looking into a long-standing student gripe: a lot of Med School teachers can't teach very well...
Industry, too, has begun to benefit from speeded speech as a time- and labor-saving device. For example, when you call the phone company to register a complaint, chances are that you're talking to a machine, who will record your gripe and play it back to the operator in speeded speech form. One frozen food company has put a computer to work taking orders. Once the order has been restructured in compressed speech form, all the preliminary formalities have been worked out, leaving the operator time to fill two or three times as many orders as usual...
...Northern Moslems, acting to avenge the Southern-led January coup that had thrown them out of power and killed many of their leaders. It was also designed to forestall another coup, which dissatisfied Southern Ibos had reportedly been plotting against the regime they had put in power. The Southern gripe was simple: Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi, an Ibo himself, had proved too soft on the Northerners...