Word: groans
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...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...
Mectoff, down at Number Three, is slowing down. He sits back with a groan...
...another Neil Simon or Jean Kerr. But one does expect him to be funny and to be himself. Leonard Gershe is only sporadically funny and never uniquely himself. Eileen Heckart, playing the mother of a blind young man who seeks independence by moving into his own apartment, can groan and pun-like a baritone sax-and delivers her lines almost as if Gershe had delivered the goods...
...three inches taller than Keats) and thought about sex all the time. He thought about it with the kine in the byre, with the peat in the bog and with the kelp on the strand; and sometimes at night he would rouse himself on his pallet with a dreadful groan, exclaiming, "Oh, I am thinking about sex again!" This was so painful to his mother and father and three living grandparents, who slept like spoons in the big bed beside and slightly above his pallet, that they arranged for him to be shipped to the colonies. He was then approaching...
...American" families make a greater effort to suppress their reactions to pain than other cultural groups, such as Italians, among whom an outcry is socially acceptable. For yet others, the "wailing wall" psychology provides a rationale: the vocal protest is supposed to ease the pain. Many a man will groan aloud to alleviate cramping pains in his belly, though he may remain silent under other kinds of pain...