Word: groaning
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...January 1942 the U.S. has its greatest supply of food in all history. A two-year store of wheat lies heavy in the big concrete granaries of Chicago and Minneapolis, in the steel bins, like sawed-off oil tanks, which dot the Midwestern countryside. Rude, slatted corn cribs groan from overloading as well as frost: the U.S. has enough corn for 18 months...
Like a schoolmaster caning a child and then roaring that he must not weep, the President had said: "Until this job is done, until this war is won, we will not talk of burdens." Congressmen crept off into their cloakrooms to groan in quiet-all except the good gooseherds of the tax committees: North Carolina's hamhanded, aged (78) Representative Robert L. Doughton, and Georgia's urbane, grey (64) Senator Walter F. George...
...justice, every instinct of tolerance has been whittled and twisted by his virulent mind to fit not humans everywhere, but the Germans alone. And when principle stops at national boundaries, only force reaches out beyond. Hitler's fanatic nationalism explains the unending lies and invectives with which his speeches groan...
...Viva O'Brien" is the biggest, bestest, most extravagant and ambitious musical show ever to be piled up on the boards and shoveled across the footlights of Boston's peaceful old Shubert Theatre. Producers Tickey, Hale and Robinson have reached into the pantry of theatrical food and loaded a groaning table with every edible known to the theatroniverous world. Net result: the most appetetive play-going gourmand alive could hardly leave without a satieted groan and a distinct craving for Alka-Seltzer. Reason: the recipe used was an inexcusably hacked script...
...dark. A white sheet of spray lifted high over the starboard lifelines and swished down on the deck. From the siren on the foremast came a hoarse groan-ten seconds to go. The loudspeaker took up the count. It came faint, thin and broken to the forepeak: "9-7,6-FIRE...