Word: groaning
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...news crept through the sleeping city, and a groan sounded abroad: there will be NO CRIME tomorrow. And the populace was sore afraid...
...Groan of Ages. Of Charles, as of Shakespeare's Duncan, it was said that nothing in his life so much became him as his leaving of it. Calmly mounting the scaffold outside his own banquet hall at Westminster, the King said, more in sadness than in reproach: "I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be." When Charles's head was cut off, a witness recalls, "such a groan went up from the crowd as I never heard before, and I desire I may never hear again...
...Grunt, groan, wheeze-and down went Yarborough, with Thurmond atop him. "Tell me to release you, Ralph, and I will," said Thurmond. Yarborough looked bravely up from his position on the terrazzo floor and averred: "I'm waiting for my second wind...
...ahead, groan. Up to this point, Rio unreels like a bad French imitation of the standard filler thriller Hollywood produces for the shrunken-head set. But beyond this point, groans turn to giggles and giggles to guffaws. Made by Philippe de Broca, a young French director (The Five-Day Lover) of stunning esprit, the film turns out to be a clumsy but almost continually hilarious parody of the typical next-earthquake-please, throw-away-the-script-boys-this-is-an-action picture...
...Senate floor, the supporters of the civil rights bill have displayed consistent eloquence, wit, courtesy, and intelligence. Unhappily they are not on the Senate floor enough. The Northern coalition, nailed together by the diligence of Senator Humphrey, has begun to creak and groan...