Word: griping
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...from his farm and forced to migrate? He told us that he sold his farm because his wife wanted to move to California." Replied TV Veteran Mur row blandly: "It is not uncommon to have one thing said to the cameras and another later on." Always aggressive in his gripe against the grape. South Carolina's teetotaling Democratic Senator Olin D. Johnston was determined to beat back attempts to raise U.S. diplomats' "representation allowance," otherwise known as the "booze fund." "I have never heard of the United States influencing anyone to our benefit as a result of feeding...
...campaign promises. To pay its bills, the government slapped new taxes on beer, tobacco and petrol, which more than canceled the tax rebates. Above all, New Zealand's voters were irritated by the feeling of pervasive government supervision of their tight little, right little island nation. A frequent gripe is that in the midst of prosperity, no one can buy an automobile except after paying exorbitant import duties and taxes (137% on U.S. cars), and even then the red tape makes delivery a matter of months...
...home-state players, is fast developing the fierce local pride necessary to support a winner. When Kansas only tied Oklahoma this season, 13-13, frustrated Jayhawk fans booed Mitchell -to his vast delight. Mitchell's ready explanation: "It's the first time Kansans have cared enough to gripe...
...wrestling match is honest or not? Frankly, I can think of nothing duller than an honest quiz show, an honest wrestling match, or a play that captures dialogue exactly as uttered by real live people. It seems to me that the only group that has a legitimate gripe against-the quiz programs is Actors' Equity, not because the actors were underpaid but ' because they didn't join the union...
Luders' coup came just as the Cruising Club rule committee was sitting down to the thankless task of considering revisions of the formula. Loudest gripe is against the designers' most successful postwar innovation-short, wide-beamed center-boarders that not only run faster off the wind but also drive relatively well into the wind matched against their deep-keeled rivals, who have to give them time under the formula. Most famous of these boats is Olin Stephens' Finisterre, which all but revolutionized ocean racing by winning the Bermuda race...