Word: groans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soothing strains of recorded music. What ever happened to Flight 92 and faraway places? The doors finally close, and up front a dashingly costumed pilot checks the banks of lights on a complex control panel and starts an engine. That brings an even greater surprise: with a muffled groan, the entire room ponderously backs up, turns around and trundles off at the less than jet-age speed of 10 m.p.h. Gradually, it dawns on the occupants that they are in the clutches of a "Plane Mate," one of the three elevated mobile lounges that now carry passengers comfortably from...
...Many More is pure fun, with never a thought. It works largely by puns of the farfetched, groan-producing type. (Remarks addressed to the loquacious Sir Keold: "Don't rap that." "Yeah bag it.") There's one example. See the play for the many more...
...soon developed into the world's top female rock singer, commanding as much as $50,000 a night. Like her idol Bessie Smith, Janis had a singing style as earthy as a streetwalker. There were myriad subtle ways in which her voice could range from a deep throaty groan to a high tender croon. When she licked into a phrase like "Oh, I'd be so good to ya, babe, yeah!" (Turtle Blues), there was no mistaking the kind of ecstasy she had in mind...
quarrel, sulk and groan...
...WHAT to do? We groan at each other in the street and take tranquilizers. We scream when we look at the catalogue and discover that the University has changed the numbers of all the courses, the kind of thing that will drive some of us to drink. We explain to each other that we are not depressed (we are not), merely delirious and confused...