Word: groaning
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...given him a greater range than other amateurs of the 18th Century manner. His published pieces yield the vivid image of an Old Etonian still alive and kicking amid the European rubble, somberly turning the pages of psychiatric journals, reaching for the odes of Horace, and composing, with a groan, clever paragraphs to keep his modern anguish under classic control...
...Look! . . . The Administration has ways at its disposal to get [U.S. surplus] wheat and send it overseas. If things really get tough, we will accept rationing. Of course we will groan and grumble and protest, but that only expresses our discomfort, not our displeasure...
Last week, an unobserved concussion jarred Annie's dormant time fuse into action. No. 2 Bomb-Disposal Company, which had started to dig it out, declared that, unless the bomb blew itself up, it would have to be detonated. With a mental groan, Londoners kept thinking of that thing ticking away over in St. James's Park. Like all veterans, they were glad that the war was over, and yet the ticking of the bomb carried an echo of past excitement into the grouchy drabness of peace...
...have to do is ask me," or "Whistle when you want me; I'll be across the hall," the stage is set for an out-of-the-corner-of-the-mouth-remark from Bogart. And she doesn't need the content of those lines to make the audience groan; her first speech consists of "Anybody got a cigarette?", and half the audience expects Humphrey to pull out a carton of Camels...
...mixture of guilt and frustration peculiar to the civilian soul in wartime, the nation was willing to admit that its patriotic conscience was not completely clear. But last week-while dutifully opening its mouth for the latest dose of official criticism-the vast patient could not stifle a groan of protest...