Word: groaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everywhere. Breathed no man alive in the 48 States, excepting only (possibly) hermits, night watchmen and astronomers, who was not exposed almost daily to lures, enchantments, traps, and high-pressure selling designed to milk his pocketbook of every possible cent for the war effort. Men might groan and women resist, but on the street, in railroad stations, in shops and stores and factories and offices, in restaurants, cafes and lunch-wagons, in movies, theaters and stadiums, over the radio all day and all night, they were exhorted, begged and bewitched into buying war bonds...
...there was a war. Sunburned survivors of Sevastopol limped through the streets. Every few hours Moscow heard the clump clump clump of marching feet. Often the marchers were new recruits-old men, young men, women-getting their initial training. Sometimes they were labor battalions. One afternoon there was the groan of airplane motors overhead and 50 huge black bombers sped low over the city, heading north. Unlike London, free from the pressure of bombing raids, and the U.S., stewing about inflation, a sense of grim reality hung over the heart of Russia...
...that the will of the people ought to prevail. And when you think he is selling out other convictions, he is subordinating smaller convictions to the deepest conviction of a democratic representative," from the audience rose a shout of "No," a chorus of boos, and a hearty groan. On the Blue's national network, the groan echoed from Maine to California...
From coast to coast, Senator Murray's inquiry raised a long and agonized groan about "whimsical demands," "inexplicable duplication," burdensome costs. Donald Nelson got the idea, ordered his WPB to abolish the most unnecessary forms, go easy on the others...
Ersatz Candy. The candymakers (fourth largest U.S. food industry) met in convention last week to moan and groan. Reasons: lost imports from 29 countries; the rationing of sugar and cocoa (which formerly constituted half of $400,000,000 worth of candy sold each year). But the confectioners pushed their product as an important Army food item; and bravely produced new wartime candies, featuring: powdered milk, dried fruit, domestic nuts, shredded and toasted soybeans, corn syrup, sweet potatoes, cereal, cracker meal, cornstarch, gelatin, peanut butter, and three-day-old bread...