Word: gripings
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...Asked . . how it felt to have shot down more planes officially than any other American-27-Major Bong replied he felt just the same as before except that he had a 'gripe' . . . 'you guys for one thing...
...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...