Word: bemoaner
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Wherever Negroes gather in the U.S., hands rise just as quickly to such a question. To them Lift Every Voice and Sing is the No. 2 song to the national anthem. While white people bemoan the lack of suitable patriotic songs, even find fault with The Star-Spangled Banner's annoying octave-and-a-half range, colored people have quietly adopted a rousing anthem of their...
...fight the kind of war Hitler had loosed on the world, did not have enough trained men to build the plants that could create them. In a fury of frustration they jumped on each other, developed morbid fears of invisible enemies, chased ghosts and phantoms, looked backward to bemoan old mistakes and ancient blunders. Greater sign of weakness was that-though no longer was a crisis doubted-no great national program came into being that could give each man his place in a giant effort, give a creative release to pent-up emotions...
...fear Brenda's being spoiled," disapproved her paternal grandaunt, Mrs. Ida Spear of Boston. "I bemoan all this spectacular notoriety...
...much more frequent anti-war exhibitions. For by this display of the Harvard R.O.T. C., the Field Artillery second lieutenants will show the University that there are at least some students who are as unafraid to show off their belief in preparedness as the peace strikers were to bemoan this preparedness...
Frankie Frisch and Dizzy Dean were on hand to bemoan the three game losing streak of the Cards and at the same time to predict the pennant for the Cards. Frisch didn't think so much of the Bees, but Dizzy obliged by assigning them to second place...