Word: bemoans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeopardy.' Chief Justice Earl Warren was "the worst thing that ever happened" to the United States. "When he lay in state in the Supreme Court building" Warnock thundered, "over one million Negroes were in walking distance but only 300 showed up to pay their respects." He goes on to bemoan the fact that there are "500,000 people in Chicago who don't even speak English" and lament that "the more mixed blood in hospitals, the more hepatitis there will...
...sums this Indian virtue up in the negative, contrasting it with the U.S. and calling it "lack of impersonality." He is the only elite third world student who said to me, unqualifiedly, that "I very strongly identify with my people," and he was the only one to really bemoan what he and I termed the lack of solidarity among Third World students at Harvard...
...Ginn, the soft-spoken associate director of the Office of Career Services, might not be the type of person you would expect to bemoan riflery's elimination from Harvard's roster of varsity sports. But Ginn, an ordained minister and former senior tutor of Quincy House, has even volunteered along with Coles to coach the team without pay if necessary...
...four musicians convincingly transmitted a powerful and unified conception of the piece to a rapt audience. Those who bemoan the state of musical performance at Harvard will have to find someone other than undergraduate musicians to blame...
Handsome and visibly upper-crust -a film producer once sought him to play the part of James Bond-Lord Lucan was thought by his friends to be the quintessence of the civilized aristocrat, a man who would raise his voice only to protest a spoiled claret or bemoan a bad shot at a grouse on the moors. After serving in the Coldstream Guards and undertaking a short, unspectacular career in business, he had retired on his $250,000 inheritance to carry on more engrossing pursuits, notably golf, skiing, the hunt and chemin de fer at Mayfair gaming clubs. His success...