Word: bleats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the end came, the Lion's roar was reduced to a barely perceptible bleat. Gone was the company's $3,374,000 capital. Gone, too, was $5,600,000 of the government loan. British Lion had suffered heavy losses on such films as Cry, the Beloved Country and Gilbert and Sullivan. Said Korda, echoing the famous last words of many a onetime Hollywood cine-mogul: "They may not have done so well at the box office, but. . . they were good...
...Yale headquarters at Gales Ferry things might be a little different. Their examination period is over before the Yalies arrive at their training base and they are forever popping down to Red Top to bleat about the weakness of their crews, and to recall the memories of the previous football season...