Word: grumbler
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...Chelsea Town Hall, where he attended a dance for West African students and made a little speech, the British Labor Party's great grey grumbler was introduced as "The One & Only Aneurin Bevan." Said Bevan in reply: "When I heard your chairman refer to me as "the one & only Aneurin Bevan, I heaved a sigh of relief-for if there were more of me, I would be declared an illegal association...
...What we tend to forget," said a Tory campaign manager, a brainy and broadminded Yorkshireman, "is that Labor also rests on its record. We tend to forget that a grumbler is not necessarily a Tory convert. We tend to forget the vast blocs of solid Labor voters-the millions of workers who don't realize that it was Hitler, who beggared the world of goods, and not the Socialists, who created the conditions for full employment...
...street, he's always the one that's got to pay. Don't talk to me about the good life in West Berlin," said one. Another replied: "Why don't you go over to the East then?" This question, as always in Berlin, stopped the grumbler in his tracks. "You know why," he answered. "I can't keep my mouth shut-and don't want...
...People's Consciousness. Grumbles can be handled in two ways; putting a hand over the grumbler's mouth, or trying to remove the cause of the grumbling. Stalin-through Zhdanov-is trying both methods...
...other hand, countless complaints being made daily are mostly due to bad will and unpatriotic grumbling. In such cases, the grumbler will be treated as a slacker and dealt with accordingly...