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Word: grumblers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Slackers | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Nobody notices human suffering in all this fuss about machinery and the Five-Year-Plan," complained a flashing-eyed non-Communist oldster. "The things I fought for - Freedom, Equality. Happiness - somehow the Revolution has lost sight of them!" No grumbler is Bomb Boy Michael Frolenko. ancient, grizzled Chief Assassin (there were 20) of Tsar Alexander II, who "liberated"' Russia's 20,000.000 serfs. After the bombing "the Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight," writes his eyewitness-nephew, Grand Duke Alexander, "his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: 16,000 Years in Chains | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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