Word: moaning
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...EARWIGS are giggling, did we hear a soft moan from one is yet-to-be-converted about how the business of government is business, or something, but certainly not gala parties and three-hour lunches? Nonsense we say. The dreary old Capitol building has nothing over the cute little bistro on M Street. If you find it just slightly barbaric that hundreds of newspaper readers every day revel in the personal and professional ups and downs of those in the proverbial public spotlight, well, you can always preface the names you drop from reading the Ear with a heartfelt...
...Crimson--it never got to show its late-inning strength. Umpire Joe Driscoll of Arlington watched the rain fall not-so-gently on the grassy plains of Holyoke High for four innings before suspending the contest at the end of the sixth, prompting coach Loyal Park to moan, "What happened out there was inexcusable. And a local guy did it to us." And he had a point--the wet stuff was falling no harder in the sixth than it had been in the eventually-fatal third when the Blue Hens scored their...
...saleswomen to restock their own counters as necessary. Indeed, the company tries to cut out paperwork wherever possible. It employs no buyers as such, but-buying British where possible and often taking more than 50% of a factory's output-goes directly to 550 suppliers. Though some suppliers moan that the company strangles them, they know that M & S's quality controls make their goods more salable and give them secure, year-round markets...
...student spending his first summer in a law firm finds the work not as interesting as he supposed, he might sit and moan that he should have pursued that dream of being an artist in Paris after all. But if the law student is named Tom Fuller '74 and if he has played the lead in the Gilbert and Sullivan shows for years then instead of idling away his time with wishful thinking, he sits down and writes a play. Softly Speaking, to be performed at Kirkland House March 3-5 with music by Gerald Moshell is the product...
...afterword) a woman who allowed her, and, vicariously, the reader, into her home, to observe, to question and to describe. Sheehan is familiar enough to be there when Santana discovers her son is mainlining heroin; but is that so routine that Santana accepts it in stride, without a moan or a whimper even? So it appears from the description the reader is offered...