Word: moans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Humiliating Prospect. At week's end, after the Giants suffered their llth defeat in their last twelve games, Fox could only moan: "Will someone please tell me how to shake an entire team out of a batting slump?" If no one does and those strange September things keep happening, the Giants face the humiliating prospect of finishing second for the sixth time in the past seven seasons...
...they have no regrets. But many older women, and some girls who feel conflict with their religious or ethical upbringing, find the experience psychologically scarring. Cindy, 17 and single, felt exhilarated immediately after her abortion. But when her hospital roommate, going into labor from a saline induction, began to moan with pain, Cindy's cheer gave way to guilt at the ease with which she herself had ended her pregnancy. She broke down and wept...
...moan about the Faculty's "sad experience" seems a trifle absurd. But Hughes is right that the majority of students ran away: the strike collapsed before it got started. A few kids stuck around to man the typewriters and phones at Peace Action Strike; some others canvassed factories and high schools for a few days. The others disappeared. And now September has come, and we're all going back to class (except those who have been kicked out). The sad experience of last May was ours, not the Faculty's. We were so secure in our individual institutional wombs...
...nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club-the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history. These men are hard up for hard times. They can only make hay when the sun does not shine. The objective of this campaign is to replace those who moan endlessly about what is wrong with their country with men and women of the wit and will to stand up and speak out for what is right in America. This campaign presents us with a clear choice between the troglodytic [cave-dwelling] leftists who dominate Congress now, and the moderate, centrist...
...hysteria?and winds back down again, without missing a moan. On Yos-sarian's tortured face is a look of applied sanity that befits only saints and madmen. He walks through a closed system to which everyone but the dreamer...