Word: groaned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mourners scurried away when the storm broke, but a party of naked mendicants had heard him groan and rescued him. Next morning the brother-in-law had rustled up another body to put on the pyre and finish the funeral. Shocked into amnesia, Roy had traveled and lived with the beggars for twelve years while his memory gradually returned. That was his story: now he was home...
...given him a greater range than other amateurs of the 18th Century manner. His published pieces yield the vivid image of an Old Etonian still alive and kicking amid the European rubble, somberly turning the pages of psychiatric journals, reaching for the odes of Horace, and composing, with a groan, clever paragraphs to keep his modern anguish under classic control...
...Look! . . . The Administration has ways at its disposal to get [U.S. surplus] wheat and send it overseas. If things really get tough, we will accept rationing. Of course we will groan and grumble and protest, but that only expresses our discomfort, not our displeasure...
Last week, an unobserved concussion jarred Annie's dormant time fuse into action. No. 2 Bomb-Disposal Company, which had started to dig it out, declared that, unless the bomb blew itself up, it would have to be detonated. With a mental groan, Londoners kept thinking of that thing ticking away over in St. James's Park. Like all veterans, they were glad that the war was over, and yet the ticking of the bomb carried an echo of past excitement into the grouchy drabness of peace...
...have to do is ask me," or "Whistle when you want me; I'll be across the hall," the stage is set for an out-of-the-corner-of-the-mouth-remark from Bogart. And she doesn't need the content of those lines to make the audience groan; her first speech consists of "Anybody got a cigarette?", and half the audience expects Humphrey to pull out a carton of Camels...