Word: moaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When 1956 ended and it came time to look back over the year and give out the various motion picture awards, a low moan could be heard from some critics. The American film comedy, it seems, was showing signs of mortal illness. Perhaps the plaints were a little premature, because the very end of the year brought The Rainmaker, which, while not bright enough to dispell all the gloom about the future of comedy, is still a much better than average motion picture...
...form of consciousness characterized by desire of escape or avoidance, any varying from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture. (b) An affliction or feeling proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or bodily injury." Dorland's American Illustrated Medical Dictionary gives up without even a moan: "Distress or suffering...
...words might as well be those of Khrushchev. And with all of this, Kennan (as quoted in a later issue of TIME) can still moan bitterly that the "intellectual" is not properly esteemed in American life. If the above policy is the best that the cream of America's brains can do, our intellectuals should be smart enough not to be surprised by the consequent reaction...
Citation: "Courageous survivor of countless . . . brushes with the hereafter.... . . In a day when some moan the lack of new frontiers, while others are more concerned about pensions and retirement plans than about doing the work of the world, your life is indeed an inspiration...
...anyone should himself be drawn into a circle that he suspects has black magic links and leanings to perversion, he should talk at once to his doctor or a friendly parson who will respect his confidences." ¶ The Wisconsin Restaurant Association, meeting in Milwaukee, uttered a low moan and a loud groan over competition from church suppers, adopted a resolution calling on the state board of health to subject food-serving churches to the same health regulations as restaurants. Noting that one Milwaukee church served 1,200 fish dinners at its monthly Friday night party, Elmer A. Conforti, executive vice...