Word: bemoaner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans were able to remember their own history, they would find these Simbas no more savage than those responsible for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Perhaps one day when the white people of the West, and particularly the whites of America, can become true humanitarians, then the African states can bemoan the bestiality at Stanleyville...
Would-be summer wonks had better skip the Loeb production of "Love's Labour's Lost." Otherwise, like Ferdinand of Navarre, they might realize the folly of spending one's life in bookish pursuits and come to bemoan those "barren tasks, too hard to keep--Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep...
Richard III is early Shakespeare, and it is also very windy Shakespeare. More princes rant, more queens keen, and more nobles bemoan than in any play of comparable length (there are, to be sure, very few plays of comparable length). Richard himself is certainly villainous and unscrupulous, even though the only motive ever put forward for his villainy is simply that he enjoys himself no end by being consummately nasty. But he is better than villainous: he is memorable. And he is memorable because he refuses to take the rantings of his fellows seriously. Everything they say is humbug...
Before the Overseers met, a Harvard junior attracted a gathering in front of Widener to bemoan the abandonment of Latin. The group marched on the President's house in good spirits and heard Pusey quip. "What's pet in Latin/ Or chic in Greek,/I always distinguish/More clearly in English." The 2000 students paraded around the Square for a while, then went home...
...Angeles, dyspeptic eaters bemoan the omission of La Scala, one of the finest Italian restaurants on the West Coast, and the Cock 'n Bull, whose Sunday hunt breakfast alone is worth a constellation. Many topflight restaurants in raffish neighborhoods lose points to stuffier places in more conventional surroundings. Chasen's rates its four stars more for its pressagentry than its food. On the other hand, the guide has also dug up many outstanding out-of-the-way spots, including Casa la Golondrina in Los Angeles, Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley, and Bimbo's 365 Theatre...