Word: moans
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...Stumble, moan, go, this girl might sail on the desk...
...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...
...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...
...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...