Word: whimper
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...long fall of Ohio Congressman Wayne Hays finally concluded in a whimper. Charged last May with using his office payroll to keep Elizabeth Ray, 33, as his mistress, the 14-term Democrat had lost his House Administration Committee chairmanship, was hospitalized in June after an overdose of drugs, and in August announced he would not run for reelection. Last week the Congressman completed his slide down Capitol Hill with a terse, one-sentence letter of resignation. Hays' departure will spare him public examination by the House Ethics Committee, which immediately dropped its probe into how Ray earned...
...Harvard season ended with a whimper in the ninth, when Peter Bannish flied out with a runner on first, ending the worst season for Harvard in fifteen years...
...sapped by guilt, ecumenical dilutions of religion and "all that brotherhood crap." When it becomes clear that the passive invaders will run aground off the Côte d'Azur, the French are so "mucked up with brotherly love" that they turn their country over with scarcely a whimper...
...Dressage ended in a whimper and a whinney and I quickly headed for the Pintos and Mustangs in the parking lot and an escape from the overwhelming bouquet of the manure: bring on those gas fumes...
This very British novel is about a man whose face is his misfortune, by a woman whose name may be hers. Its protagonist, Godfrey Pettlement, is so hideous that children whimper and adults recoil in shock when they see him. Even horror-film producers find him too ugly to cast. "One doesn't think of you having a normal figure," somebody tells Pettlement. "It would be more in keeping if you somehow sploshed along the ground or were drawn by suction power...