Word: griping
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Since the Roman legions began murdering their commanders in moments of pique, soldiers everywhere have considered it their basic right to gripe-even if not to take more forcible action. And the U.S. Army reservists and National Guardsmen called up last fall as a symbol of the Kennedy Administration's intent to stand fast in Berlin have certainly availed themselves of their squawking privileges. Yet last week a gangling...
...even finished Troy High School, 73 miles west of Columbus. He was so big when he entered Troy-a rock-solid 195 Ibs.-that school officials had to send out mimeographed copies of his birth certificate to quell complaints from rival coaches. Soon the coaches had better reason to gripe. After dropping its first three games during Ferguson's freshman year, Troy never lost another while he was around. College recruiters, awed by Ferguson's ability to gain as much as 470 yds. in a single game, swamped him with offers. None were as persuasive as Woody Hayes...
...Student Government Association. For the past several years, the SGA has suffered from a fuzziness of purpose inevitable at a college where most students feel that few battles remain to be fought. Although SGA meetings could be effective forums for student opinion, they have dwindled into trivial gripe sessions. This year at last there are signs of a change; for this very reason the Student Government Association must be careful to explore all structural possibilities and sound out student views rather than settling for an unimaginative re-working of the existing organization...
...Simply glance at it you grovel/Hand and foot in Belial's gripe," the monk goes on to say in Robert Browning's poem, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, about an otherwise unidentified book...
...said, "Hope you can stand another hour of this." Two hours later, after the whole dorm has spent a great deal of time in semi-riot, the proctorian rumble continues, and I have given up hope of finishing my Friday math assignment and getting the hum paper done. My gripe is that, first, it is unfair to conduct such a bolsterous affair on a Thursday night, when most Pennypackerites have classes on Friday; and, second, that, if such a party were the scene in my pad, our kindly proctors would quickly disperse us. Justice? Craig M. Nlelson...