Word: moaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quaint perch in Weld Hall... I had better try to step." A red light leomed in front of the Indian. He had arrived at Broadway. He could not stop. Two MTA busses and a University truck were bearing down or Karandas, but his path remained unaltered. With a low moan, he charged the asphalt...
...doctors and patients now take NHS for granted. Explained a Glasgow doctor: "It's like the income tax-part of our way of life. We moan about it, but we can't imagine being without it." At St. Bartholomew's Hospital's first-rate Medical College in London, Dean D. F. Ellison Nash said: "We couldn't have kept up with diagnosis, treatment and medical care without a national service." A London painter: "It's not all that good, not for what you get out of it. But abolish it? Not that, mate...
...sell your cotton to those foreigners at the price they are willing to pay, and we will pay you another 8½? for every pound you sell." Well sir, no sooner were the growers of cotton mollified than the makers of cotton cloth and yarn and clothing began to moan. "All those foreigners," they wailed, "are buying our country's cheap cotton and making it into cheap goods and sending them back here to eat up our markets." (The clothmakers were careful not to remind the President that his country earned much more money selling cotton and cloth...
...sudden explosion of power? Pitchers moan that the modern ball is more rabbit than horsehide. "They've got it jacked up," insists Los Angeles Angels Reliefer Ryne Duren. Says Cleveland Manager Jimmy Dykes: "When some of these little fellows start popping 'em over the fence, you have to figure they are winding the rubber in the ball tighter. They must even be using elastic glue, too." Baseball manufacturers huffily denied that souped-up balls are the reason. "There has been no change in the construction of the ball in the last quarter-century," says Spalding President Edwin...
...also are conscious self- a sewerful of unconscious Poe's "Eulalie"'. "I dwelt a world of moan, And my was a stagnant tide, Till the gentle Eulalie became my bride." Of these I on Macaulay most: to Spain and saw only disguised and increased , dominions of vast bulk strength, tempting, un, and defenseless, an empty ry, a sullen and torpid nation, on the throne, factions on the council, ministers who served only themselves, and soldiers who were terrible only to their countrymen, Men looked to France, and saw a large and compact territory, a rich soil, a central situation...