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Word: moans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...things: to keep the blood moving and the mind awake during the early morning and the five hour lecture period; and to capitalize on the William James theory that action precedes feeling. For example, look at any University dining hall early in the morning. Many of us moan and groan because it is early morning. But each time we do, we remind ourselves--audibly--how lousy we feel. By acting depressed, especially early in the morning, it's easy to keep feeling depressed. In contrast, by acting alert and awake, it becomes easier to feel alert and awake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Go Southwestern, Young Man | 6/1/1976 | See Source »

...from prison, "He tried to find a way back in/To the life he'd left behind," but this is not Frank Sinatra coming back to Brooklyn after the service, looking for his finance and his old crowd: Joey, Joey, what made them want to come and blow you away?" moan Dylan and Emmylou Harris in the chorus. Safe to assume it had something to do with the fact that he arranged for the assassination attempt on Joseph Columbo. Safe to assume too that Dylan knows that, in which case the chorus takes on a satirical quality...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: To the Valley Below | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Holmes: "I don't mind knocking somebody out. If I hear a moan and a groan coming from a player I've hit, the adrenaline flows within me. I get more energy and play harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HALF A TON OF TROUBLE | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...sexist. It also incorporates the words of moderns like Alfred North Whitehead and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and these lines from William Blake: "It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements,/ To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughter house moan;/ To see a god on every wind & a blessing on every blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reform Rites | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

...interested. Neither, as it turned out, were the teachers. At an afternoon meeting of the union's 1,270-member delegate assembly, teachers stood up one after another and told horror stories. One reported that she had 60 pupils in her class-"six-oh"-and elicited a loud moan of sympathy. A first-grade teacher related how she spent the morning escorting her 48 pupils to the bathroom. Others told how strangers were able to wander around school corridors, no longer deterred by the guards, who had been laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Teachers: In a Striking Mood | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

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