Word: groanings
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...already a perfectionist, with eight years of painstaking practice behind him. When he made a sour shot, he would turn purple, talk purple, fling his club toward the next county. Young Bobby is happy-go-lucky, prone to grin rather than groan when he misses a three-foot putt. At 14, the Old Man could break 70.* Young Bobby is happy if he can break...
Blue-eyed, moon-faced Rudolf Neuberger got his idea while he was working for Atlas Powder Co. He kept hearing his friends groan over the big checks ($500 to $700) they had to send off each term to board their children in prep schools. To Mr. Neuberger, a merchandising expert, this looked like a problem business methods could solve. When he first circularized schools in 1938, he got just one client: Manlius School in New York State. Manlius sent Tuition Plan 20 contracts within ten days. The 100-odd institutions which now use the Plan include such prep schools...
Personally, Professor Sorokin is as pleasant and charming an egoist as it is possible to find at Harvard, home of many successful men. His eyes, behind steel-rimmed glasses, glitter smilingly with every word he utters. Some people who take his courses groan that they can't understand a word he says. A little judicious listening, coupled with the immunity gained after a few of his lectures, should fix that. Short, boyishly cut gray hair, a rapid and brusque manner, make him seem a tall little man. A conversation with Sorokin requires an effort to keep up with...
...power must be laid down, can always find a reason why the fatal day mus be postponed. In their minds there is always a crisis in which their services are indispensable. Always some great work at hand which they, and they alone, can do. Outwardly, they pretend that they groan under the burden and would be glad to lay it down, but in their secret souls they cling to their places. . . . The friends and sycophants of the incumbent . . constantly assure their chief that the public good demands that he should not desert the ship. This . . . sweet music that...
...power must be laid down, can always find a reason why the fatal day must be postponed. In their minds there is always a crisis in which their services are indispensable. Always some great work at hand which they, and they alone, can do. Outwardly, they pretend that they groan under the burden and would be glad to lay it down, but in their secret souls they cling to their places. . . . The friends and sycophants of the incumbent . . . constantly assure their chief that the public good demands that he should not desert the ship. This . . . sweet music that...