Word: bawl
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Well, many distinguished graduates have recorded their dissatisfaction with the education offered them by Yale: C. A. Bristed, Andrew D. White, W. W. Phelps, Poultney Bigelow, Owen Johnson. But still the old mother hustles along, dragging her rebellious children at her skirts. They kick her shins and bawl and pound her with their fists, but still she hustles along. See her broad back, her mighty arms and legs, and ample breasts that suckled those ungrateful brats. Her dress is torn, her hair is mussed, and sweat stands on her cheeks, "wrinkled deep in time". But there...
...different. The average undergraduate weighs himself in the balance of his self-esteem and finds himself wanting something. So he takes his pennies of ability, judgment, and loyalty and goes into the market place to buy. There are merchants here; hawkers, who pluck him by the arm and bawl into his ears; others who are quietly content, confident that the attractiveness of their wares will sell them to all who see and are worthy of ownership...
...personally, as Dictator, called Parliament together and cooperated with it constitutionally, even though I could have crushed the whole outfit under my thumb like a vile worm. The Deputies behave in Parliament as if they were in a saloon. Only the Ministers must act respectably while the Deputies bawl and act like swine and renegades...
...this guy E. W. A. K.? What a fool he must be." The wastebasket moved a trifle. "These guys sure do bawl me out." Another letter capped the debris in the basket. The telephone rang...
...they was a Bolshevik, who wouldn't say his prayers- So Kellogg sent him off to bed, away upstairs. An' Kellogg heered him holler, an' Coolidge heered him bawl. But when they turn't the kivvers down, he wasn't there at all! They seeked him down in Mexico, they cussed him in the press; They seeked him 'round the Capitol, an' everywhere I guess But all they ever found of him was whiskers, hair and clout- An' the Bolsheviks I'll get you ef you don't watch...