Word: groanings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sonics were down 3-zip to the Bulls, so naturally I hoped to cheer everybody up while I was in town. As soon as I got off the plane, it became obvious that I had my work cut out for me. The headline of the Post-Intelligencer was HOME GROAN. The Seattle Times headline was READY TO CRUMBLE...
Graced with elegant stained glass windows and wood darkened with years of use, Sanders Theatre and Annenberg Hall practically groan under the weight of Harvard tradition...
...while a college student can afford to groan at such attempts at humor, The Real Freshman Handbook provides an entertaining guide for the future first-year. It just might make the transition from home to dorm a bit easier...
GLUM AND GLUMMER MOVIES Critics often groan about mindlessly optimistic tripe from Hollywood. But in 1995 many of them found moral instruction, even art, in mindlessly pessimistic tripe--grotty little films about how rotten life is. If it wasn't the self-destructive singer in Georgia, it was a moony, whiny Priest or some horny, joyless Kids. Cheer up, folks; life ain't that bad. Only movies...
...LONG HAVE WESTERN RANCHERS benefited from their low-cost rental of federal lands. But when the Federal Government puts restrictions on the use of this economic advantage, the ranchers have the audacity to moan and groan. If these Westerners wish to have "rights of use" to this land, let them pay the market price. Then they will be in a better position to negotiate terms with the Federal Government. All things have their price. RUSSELL A. MACCACHRAN, Boulder, Colorado