Word: groanings
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...first place) joined the filibuster. Obviously torn by the issues at stake, Douglas blurted: "In such imperfect wisdom as I have-and I say this with no sense of self-righteousness-I will vote to uphold the President's veto," and slumped into his chair with a groan...
...only approve," wrote Pascal in one of the more peevish passages of his Pensées, "of those who groan aloud in their search for the truth." Literature, from Greek tragedy to T. S. Eliot, has been vastly benefited by truth-seekers who could out-groan a Maine fog horn; but it has also had to put up with a host of novelists and poets who forget that the surest way to ruin a good groan is to work it to death and stuff its remains into the machinery of their writing...
Then, "one sweltering hot evening in late May ... he hears a mighty storm raging ten miles away in the hills and knows the rains have broken." A wall of brown, log-choked water bears down on him. "He staggers and falls, but the groan he gives is drowned by peals of thunder," and his carcass is smashed to bits as the flood hurtles it along. The reason elephant remains are seldom found: porcupines gnaw away the tusks to get at the nerve pulp, other scavengers destroy whatever else remains...
...Broadway, spring all too often wears a wintry look, and April is the crudest month indeed. Last week two plays, one French and one American, struggled to outdo each other in making their characters and their audiences groan. As the work of French Playwright Jean Anouilh (Antigone), Cry of the Peacock proved the more surprising debacle. Anouilh's indictment of Love began as frivolously as Molnar and wound up as savagely as Strindberg. With notable help from the production, the play messed up every mood it attempted, and, despite brief glimpses of something better, proved dated, hollow, inept. Bitterly...
...many of the King's subjects the King's golf is something to groan over rather than cheer about. It opens a revealing little window on the controversial, headstrong personality whose possible return to the throne has put the Kingdom of the Belgians in a constitutional dither and a cabinet deadlock...