Word: sob
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...sends notes to friends' funerals saying: "I am very sorry it had to come to this." But when Breslin graduated to writing his mood pieces about the day's biggest news events, from Selma to Saigon, he was often unbeatable. He has been called a male sob-sister, and wise guys belittle his Dick-and-Jane vocabulary, but he is not the dummy he pretends to be, and his blend of brisk action and understated generalizations packed a punch...
Some of the students sob, quietly and soulfully. Temple Drake adjusts her halo, and awaits her oppressors...
What passes for country music these days is so diffuse that it just about defies definition. These albums have little in common except that they were made by men with short haircuts, a sob in their throats, a taste for old-style ballads, and a refreshing lack of city-style sophistication...
...large as itself. Out of the egg hatched a giraffe carrying a banner inscribed "Legalize Abortion." The Lampoon seemed instantly young and vital, and chuckles of observers could be heard in the Starr Book Shop. But suddenly The Harvard Lampoon convulsed into a ball, emitted a single gargantuan sob, and rolled, dead, into a wastepaper basket...
...show like Peyton Place, ABC's twice-weekly soap opera, there's no future for a female character after she's finally married the father of her child. That unlucky event came to pass recently for Dorothy Malone, the show's sob-racked mother figure ever since it opened 3½ years ago-and she has been written out of the action as of early June. In to fill the vacuum will go able Movie Veteran Barbara Rush, 38, who has a string of first-rate acting jobs to her credit (The Bramble Bush...