Word: groaning
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Burgess's most personal predilections come into play not only with the lopsided Englishness of his choices but with his embrace of verbally experimental books (Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, John Earth's Giles Goat-Boy) and of sci-fi or futuristic visions (Kingsley Amis' The Anti-Death League, Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence). His list is as striking for what it leaves out as for what it includes. Every reader will have his favorite omissions-after all, that is half the fun of literary parlor games like this-but just to name five...
...ghost ship; you heard the creak of the rigging and the groan of the timbers and sometimes even glimpsed the crew on deck. But which of the crew had the helm...
...AUDIBLE GROAN rose from the room. A real grown. People all around the dining room reacted with annoyed exasperation. Bok patiently went through the response he first articulated in 1978 and which he has revised and republished a few times since--namely that Harvard serves its moral obligations better by working within a company to change its policies rather than by dumping its stock and its power for moral persuasion along with...
...Thailand and the Philippines. Although they were no longer terrorized, they continued to sleep in the dirt and catch colds while less hardy escapes succumbed to the squalor and despair. Some refugees gobbled down food with a hunger that caused shrunken stomachs to burst. Lien watched one man groan and writhe after eating several bowlfuls of rice; he died that evening in his sleep, by his wife's side. According to Lien, he had simply become "too hungry...
...joke. And although The Marriage makes no pretensions to be more than a simple comedy, it won't bore those who have graduated from fairy tale. The play is genuinely funny; the humor never drags, and only one or two bad puns seem more deserving of a groan than a laugh. There may be much to explain, but there's plenty to enjoy...