Word: groans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many Harvard students moan and groan about their course load. Getting readings and papers done for four courses can be a stretch and those who take five classes often vent about the increased pressure...
...audible groan greeted the announcement that yesterday's NCAA Tournament Second Round game between the Harvard women's soccer team and George Mason would go to sudden-death overtime...
...wasn't supposed to be this way. On the eve of the Pacific century, Asia's two most powerful economies were supposed to be pumping out wealth for the rest of the world--not threatening to suck it dry. But banks in Japan and South Korea now groan with bad debts that could push both countries into deep, prolonged downturns. In Japan, public confidence is at a postwar low and nobody wants to spend a yen. Korea is cash strapped and politically rudderless, with a presidential election just four weeks...
This year, for example, I'm not going to panic over my work. I'm not going to talk back to people. Plus, I'm not going to let little things bother me--like all those times that I groan a little too loudly when that annoying kid in my section starts pontificating for the 100th time...
Larissa Tsibliyev sighed deeply. She knew her husband's dark moods and had learned to read the signs, like the way he would melodramatically groan and clutch at his heart when he was under stress. But in all the years of his service to the motherland, she had never seen him look so troubled...