Word: gripings
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...even more popular with the young ones than with old ones. As Ike looked on with moist eye, the Young Republicans adopted a resolution pledging themselves to "emulate your dedication to service and support your leadership." And they cheered lustily when Richard Nixon rapped "Republicans who snipe and gripe about the Republican Administration...
This statement has attracted the most attention from the outside. Whenever a new scandal is uncovered in the West, the Ivy League is immediately pointed to as the last "vestige of true amateurism." Anyone with a gripe against Big Time always looks to the Ivy League as the potential saviour of football...
Newsmen assigned to cover Adlai Stevenson's quest for the Presidency were noticeably discontented last week. Half-way between the August conventions and the November election, they had reached the state where "everybody has a gripe about something and their little piques are all coming out at once," as one veteran reporter commented...
...some strange reason, Author Hargrove seems to feel that he needs this thesis to write a fictional sequel to his famed funnybook of World War II, See Here, Private Hargrove. Fortunately, it scarcely clutters up the plot, and Author Hargrove is soon back on the grin-and-gripe days of basic. While the rover-boys-in-training-camp is not exactly fresh comedy material. The Girl He Left Behind is still good and sufficient grounds for an evening's trial separation from...
...rise, when the shadow of horror fell on all writing by and about Germans-this book makes at least one group of Germans seem truly human and amusing. For whatever else they were, Gunner Asch suggests the Wehrmacht soldiers were also members in the brother hood of the gripe, card-carriers in the great privates' international...