Word: groanings
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From the prisoner's dock came a groan. Chack had slumped to the floor. Attendants carried him to a chair. Again he whispered: "I confess my error. . . . Americans have come to comfort me in my cell. . . . Now I understand America in her humane aspect . . . her aspirations not to become the greatest but the best. . . . That is what I would write...
When they finally laid him tenderly onto the canvas litter and straightened his left leg you could see the tendons relax and his facial muscles subside, and he gave a long half-groan, half-sigh of relief...
...paid much attention to Joan until she took time out last fall to have a baby. When she returned, the audience in general gave her the big hello. And the boys out front, perhaps partly to kid the Sinatrians, "began to moan and groan" over Joan. The antiphonal chorus bids fair to become a national pastime...
...Parade recordings, shipped to darkest New Guinea (complete with audience mooings over Joan), have moved jungle G.I.s to delighted imitation. San Francisco has a Moan-&-Groan-over-Joan Club. Other clubs just whistle. All this has upped Joan's salary to $750 weekly...
...Aklavik, dinner tables groan under inch-thick steaks (reindeer and caribou), heaping mounds of butter, jam, other war-scarce delicacies. Aklavik women, most of them Eskimos and Leacheau Indians, have all the silk stockings they need, can frequently be heard mildly bewailing "the third pair I've ruined this week." All sorts of consumer goods are available...