Word: groaned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aklavik, dinner tables groan under inch-thick steaks (reindeer and caribou), heaping mounds of butter, jam, other war-scarce delicacies. Aklavik women, most of them Eskimos and Leacheau Indians, have all the silk stockings they need, can frequently be heard mildly bewailing "the third pair I've ruined this week." All sorts of consumer goods are available...
...meat famine will end soon. Butcher-shop counters should soon groan with beefsteaks and pork chops...
...year ago today," he said, "the dimming lights of Bataan's forlorn hope fluttered and died. . . ... Our flag lies crumpled, its proud pinions spat upon in the gutter; the wrecks of what were once our men and women groan and sweat in prison toil; our faithful Filipino wards, 16,000,000 souls, gasp in slavery...
...tried vaudeville, playwrighting, stage and cinemacting without success. To earn a living while pursuing these arts he trimmed cigarstore windows, wrote insurance-company maxims (sample: "Sleep with your windows open and your mouth shut") and lectured high-school students on the benefits of drinking milk. Audiences used to groan when his subject was announced...
...regard to the article "The Army's Stomach" [TIME, Feb. 15] I would like to say a few words. According to the recent survey hots dogs are the soldiers' favorite meat. This, gentlemen, is absolutely "bunk." . . . Every time we have hot dogs the soldiers wail and groan. . . . The only reason we eat hot dogs is because they're served to us so often...