Word: gripings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to pull K.P. and extra guard? The corporal's rude, the sergeant impolite? The captain will not let you out at night? They will not let you have a private phone? It's clear, my boy, you don't know Mr. Cohn. You have a gripe? Don't tell the chaplain, son. You'll have to carry that big heavy gun, You'll have to march and even stand in line, Unless you know a certain Private Schine Who knows a man called Cohn who knows a man (I think the name...
...reference to your excellent armed forces article [Oct. 5], may I add another gripe...
Favorite place--library; favorite joke--the Harvard football team; favorite pastime--philosophical discussions; favorite gripe--colleges with spirit...
...prospect of death he learned to ac cept, and he seldom talked about it. But he could gripe about the hardships. Each echelon claimed that the men to the rear were "fat" with luxuries. The man on the line envied the man at battalion because he usually slept on a cot and lived in a tent and had three hot meals a day. Battalion thought regiment "had it made" because there the men rode around in jeeps. The soldier assigned to regiment wished he was farther back at division, where it was safer, where there were showers, Korean houseboys...
...widow," he is going ahead with his charts. The corporation has already blocked out the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Morehead City, N.C. Wind, weather and enemy gunfire notwithstanding, the partners hope some day to cover every fishing area in the U.S. Rathbun still has a minor gripe: charting fish keeps him too busy to do much fishing...