Word: bemoaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these escapes has become a big business, and professional teams haven't been the only ones taking the field in search of more than one type of pay dirt. Big-time college football hauls in barrels of cash, much of it coming from network television. But while most observers bemoan the loss of true amateurism, Musberger defends major college football...
This summer six of them took to various rostrums to bemoan their plight as ultimate arbiters in an overly litigious society. Justice John Paul Stevens objected to the most familiar palliative: a sort of junior varsity Supreme Court to decide those cases that do not quite make the cut. Said Stevens: "Like a new four-lane highway that temporarily relieves traffic congestion, a new national court would also attract greater and greater traffic volumes." Stevens suggested instead shaping such a body into a traffic policeman, with responsibility for selecting the cases the Supreme Court should decide...
Although it may be presumptuous of me, a lowly, probably stupid cheerleader, to criticize so intellectual a person as the President of The Harvard Crimson, I feel compelled to comment on Paul M. Barrett's recent flight of fancy entitled "Sis-Boom-Bah." Like Mr. Barrett, I bemoan the loss of many fine Harvard traditions. However, I am less dismayed over that decrease in "final club snobbery" than over the collapse of the old mainstay of journalism--accuracy. Call me old-fashioned and reactionary, but I long for a return to the ancient "VERITAS" standards...
...these crises are to be resolved, it is not enough to bemoan Japanese or other Asian competition, to underscore the power of the oil-producing countries, to observe that Third World countries are demanding a more just global order with increasing persistence. Or lastly, to condemn Soviet action in Europe, Asia, Africa or America, undertakings that aim to undermine the free world's resources, markets and close friends...
Krash joins the chorus of Harvard pianists who bemoan the inaccessibility of the Music Department's new Bosendorfer grand (believed by some to be the finest brand of piano in the world today). Only professors and graduate composition classes are allowed to use the instrument, which is kept locked up at all times. "The department seems to feel that instruments somehow get used up if you play them," she says. "Of course they deteriorate just as quickly if you don't play them...