Word: gripings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gripe & Countergripe. Along with the gripe there is the countergripe, or argument. Example by Listener Kahn...
From three whole WAC battalions only three Janes had gone A.W.O.L. Chief gripe was "Why should we stay behind when the boys open the second front...
...Chief gripe of WACs at home is now that they are stuck. Said Corporal Sara Sykes at Fort Oglethorpe: "We practically drool when we hear of someone going overseas." They complain that C.O.s do not always give them enough to do. Old soldiers fear that the busy WACs are on the way to end forever the enlisted soldiers' time-honored practice of "gold bricking...
When inflation comes, hell gripe as loud as the rest of us. Then Congress will look to him in vain for a kindly word...
...gloom in which our last column was written -- remember that baseball affair -- has been partially dispelled. There is now a new competition for chronic gripers. We can all play some more and then gripe about the umpires and anything else which comes to mind. "If so-and-so had only played so-and-so we would have...