Word: gripings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vociferous gripers, U.S. service men gripe not about the Red Cross. The word they have for it: swell. Summed up one private in England last week: "It's wonderful just to have an American girl to talk to." And U.S. service men know that the Red Badge of Courage may sometimes take the shape of a cross...
...people. As personal ambassador of President Roosevelt to all our Pacific Allies, he is called on to represent the American people at conferences of war and peace. It may not phase the United States to be once more represented by a political refugee, but it can't fail to gripe Australia to be represented to by one. More than one Anzae will be ruffled by this apparent slight, which quite evidently relegates the Pacific area to second-rate importance in our calculations. American party politics may have gained from the nomination; American world politics most assuredly lost...
...Gripe at Congress. Not since Franklin Roosevelt accused the Nine Old Men of the Supreme Court of taking the U.S. back to "horse & buggy days," because they ruled NRA unconstitutional, had Franklin Roosevelt lectured so strongly and critically...
...Gripe at the Press. The President spoke...
Hell & High Water. Time after time Tommy Hart mutters the chronic Navy gripe about Army fanfare: "During the first few days our Navy patrol planes crippled an enemy capital ship, and claimed nothing better than crippling. . . . [They] also seized opportunities for small-scale attacks-the bomb-down-the-smokestacks stunts-but that was flea-bite stuff about which they did not talk. . . . The wing [Patrol Ten] went back to the Malay barrier-fighting and flying and fighting. . . . But getting the information-really as much as the High Command could effectively use-getting it in the face of weather, Japanese Zeros...