Word: groaning
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...brothers close, "as a tribute to the man who made this act possible," with an art-rending groan of When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day. When Bing caught, or was caught by, the act out West (he sees his sons only rarely), he said diplomatically, "You're doin' fine; don't change a thing." With bookings piled up and the take-home pay close to $1,000 a week per man, there is no reason that they should...
...most of Japan's 94 million people, the frequent mild earthquakes that rattle windows and dismay tourists are routine works of the gods. But the nearly 3,000 employees of Dentsu Advertising, Ltd. are subject to other tremors and are often heard to groan: "Oh Oni is angry again." Oh Oni-or Big Demon-is no evil spirit from the nether world, but the nickname of Dentsu's autocratic, dynamically modern-minded president, Hideo Yoshida, 57, who almost singlehanded has built Dentsu into the world's fifth largest* advertising agency with yearly billings...
...HAVEN--With about a minute left in the Princeton-Yale game last Saturday, the announcer told the season's top Ivy crowd of 62,528: "Final score, Harvard 22, Brown 8." There was no audible response whatsoever--not even a groan...
...sensitivity to the right street, the right family, the right school-recalling, in a less obsessed way, the social preoccupation of John O'Hara, which once inspired Hemingway to groan: "Lord, I wish someone would start a fund to send O'Hara to Yale." Marquand, at least, got to Harvard, the son of an old Newburyport family which, like Charley Gray's, had lost its money and no longer lived on the best street. But he felt ill at ease because he had not prepped at Exeter or St. Mark...
...lifelong Baptist, Taft started on the Herald as a copy boy in 1949, served as polo editor for a spell, and worked several other mundane beats before getting his present assignment seven years ago. Most newsmen consigned to the church department have a tendency to groan. Taft accepted his new post as a serious challenge and a solemn responsibility...