Word: gripings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editorial writers promptly dropped all editorials, the gripe column. General Richardson hurriedly explained that he "was willing" to let them gripe, he just did not want them to call names. Said Editor (Master Sergeant) Chick Avedon: "That's different...
Today's conference was a 75-minute gripe session that might well go down in modern Chinese history as the Day of the Big Wind. First came the Americans' questions: When were idle G.I.s to be reassigned? Why couldn't a correspondent buy a parka when the Army was about to sell equipment to Chinese...
Perhaps catching on to democratic ways, Germans began to gripe-at Allied "inefficiency," at the coming Nurnberg trials of big war criminals. Thousands of unemployed men had ample time for mischief. Here & there, snipers were still active. At night, G.I.s found wires strung across highways, intended to decapitate motorcyclists. U.S. Army cars were looted. German girls suspected of fraternizing were waylaid and warned...
Naps & Breaks. The 5:50 a.m. reveille always makes the aching footballers gripe at their hard fate - mostly in corn-pone drawls (there are six Southerners on the first eleven). And from reveille on, they are never allowed to forget that football runs a poor second to the serious business of being hammered into officers and gentlemen...
...Sneeze, One Paragraph. The correspondents have something more to gripe about than the White House colorlessness. They are exceedingly jealous of any signs of presidential favoritism-and there have been some. On the President's trip to Independence, fortnight ago, Harry Truman invited A.P.'s Tony Vaccaro and U.P.'s Merriman Smith to join in a poker game. The I.N.S. reporter (a substitute) was left out, presumably because the President did not know him very well. Also left out were specials like the New York Herald Tribune's Washington chief, Bert Andrews, the Chicago...