Word: gripings
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...Loeb opened, and the uncomfortable administrative arrangements that were born with the theatre have not yet evolved into anything more conducive to good drama. Harvard organizations seem to run on discontent, but nowhere in Cambridge is so much unhappiness so openly displayed as at the Loeb. Everybody has a gripe, and often it's a serious one. Freshmen and sophomores complain that a "Loeb clique" has taken over the building; experienced directors bewail the lack of talented actors; and many students are extremely unhappy about Harvard's administration of the building...
...attack on waste, inefficiency and inflation brought on a minor recession earlier this year. Yet by last week industrial production posted an estimated 4% overall gain for the year. Many Brazilians still gripe about this year's 45% rise in the cost of living, but businessmen give Campos a rousing cheer, and foreign investors are registering their votes with money. Alcoa is planning a $50 million aluminum project, Volkswagen is spending $100 million to double its 60,000-car annual production, and Ford is building a $30 million plant that will turn out all-Brazilian Galaxies...
...making of the mayor was also powered by batteries of mechanical equipment. A two-way short-wave radio system was hooked up between the hotel headquarters (code name: "the Mansion") and cars used by Bob Price ("Adolf") and Lindsay ("Benjamin"-for Disraeli). And there was "the gripe line," a special number on which New Yorkers could log their complaints...
Penkovsky's memoir-smuggled out of Russia on one of the secret routes that carried Abram Tertz's and Boris Pasternak's works westward-is gritty and gripe-ridden in its condemnation of Moscow's upper-echelon morals, and filled with "revelations" presumably intended to compromise Soviet agents...
...they wouldn't rationalize, they did not hesitate to gripe a little. "We've got good men and good coaches," Dockery said. "So does the rest of the League, out Dartmouth, Princeton, and Penn recruit actively. Harvard doesn't tap high school ball players; they first have to show some interest in coming here for other reasons...