Word: moaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the curious crowd which had gathered, a low moan arose. A little girl whimpered in her mother's arms; a woman laughed hysterically; tears streamed down the cheeks of old women. A traffic cop grabbed a straw hat off one woman's head, tried to put out the fire by waving it over the flames, succeeded only in making them blaze higher. Three U.S. newsmen at the scene were brutally clubbed, kicked and beaten to the ground by plainclothesmen who tried to seize a newsreel camera (see PRESS...
Makes widows moan and orphans wail...
Still dull with sleep; "Alas," you moan, and shed...
...Stumble, moan, go, this girl might sail on the desk...
...million. Last fortnight heavy selling by foreign exchange speculators betting that the Canadian dollar would slump still lower suddenly raised serious doubt that the government could hold the line without exhausting the exchange fund altogether-and confronted it with a tricky political choice. Rather than let the challenging Liberals moan about the run on the dollar, the Tory government boldly decided to flee to the pegged rate (backed if necessary by the resources...