Word: gripings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hand and foot in Belial's gripe...
...real gripe," says Minneapolis Physician George Riley Martin, who swapped his 1954 Chevy for a small Simca, "is that American cars are getting too complicated. They're too full of gadgets that are always going wrong. My windshield wipers kept breaking, and they practically had to tear out the dashboard to get at the things. You're getting fins and chrome, and every time that you bash a fender a little bit, the whole side of the car has to be replaced...
...late February, and are still climbing in March, with some dealers reporting business 100% better than last month. These increases encouraged dealers to hope that the bad winter weather was as responsible for poor sales as all the complaints about Detroit's 1958 cars. One all-inclusive gripe, from Economist Slichter, who drives a 1951 Ford and recently refused to buy a 1958 model: "They are inconveniently long, inconveniently wide, inconveniently low, wasteful of gas, expensive to maintain, clumsy and ugly...
...hear all this business about Broadway sin and sex and smoke-filled rooms," Willson says, "but this company is different. It really is. Our kids weep with joy over the show, that's how much they feel about it. Do you know there hasn't been a gripe, not a bit of hysteria, not a fight from anyone since we started...
While on the subject of exams, a new gripe might just as well be added. Proctors put the time a student finishes his exam on the cover of those blue books which are handed in early. The rationale is that this gives the instructor an idea as to how difficult his exam was. In reality, the time listings serve to prejudice the grader against the student who finishes early. This is understandable, although unfortunate. If the instructor is so curious as to the time-consuming aspects of his exam, he could visit the examination room some time before the exam...