Word: mope
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...where he and his two sons raised corn and hogs. His income had plummeted during the Eisenhower administration and he was anxious to examine the initial statements of the Nixon and Kennedy farm policies. Then, instead of voting on election night, he walked down to the Grange Hall to mope quietly with the rest of his friends...
...both the teen-age Chéri and his between-age Léa, life is over at the end of Act I-and so is the play. Thereafter, the two can only mope while apart, come uneasily together, then part once more. When they meet, they talk too much, weep too much, morali e too much. Between whiles, Chéri chiefly features amusing-looking demireps, whose talk is incredibly dull. Eventually Léa. at 60, reaches the age of content, but Chéri kills himself...
...little steamed and demonstrated with him. So he says, T didn't call you a mope. I mean your pupils ain't woikin' right!' So I says, 'Oh, yeah? What's wrong wit' the way Rocky Marciano is woikin'?' " How was the respiration? "I didn't have none. I kept . . . cool." Was Al's tension all right? "You bet your life it was. As long as I was payin' so much for the checkup, I listened to every woid he said . . . The most disappointin' part . . . was when...
...Admission Blank to Thorndike" by Ralph Maud an old man suffers through a heart attack while a group of people, including a doctor who is "a lecturer at the medical school and doesn't have a State license to practice," sit around and mope. Though it might have happened, the story has such an air of unreality that all belief in its problems or characters vanishes...
...process of law." When Chairman Harold Velde finally interrupted the tirade, Stander said he was shocked that the com mittee didn't want to hear about that kind of subversion. With obvious refer ence to Bandsman Shaw, he rumbled: "I'm not a dupe, dope, mope, moe or schmoe...