Word: whimperative
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...episode Sun has found her ring, which she’d accidentally buried with the passenger messages. She cries for happiness. You know, I hope that next time we have a Sun-centric episode, the writers give her more to do than cry and whimper. Kate attempts to take the bottle and read the messages from the passengers, whining about how she “never got to say good-bye.” Looks like somebody has the hots for Sawyer – and with his facial hair, who doesn’t? I can?...
Well, it seems that the universe is not going to end in a big collapse, but expand at a greater and greater pace so it really won’t end with a bang, it will end with a whimper...
...brought back home to the lower-profile position of Army Chief of Staff. A $120 million libel suit he filed in 1982 against CBS, over a story that said he misled the White House and public about enemy troop strength, also ended with a whimper, settled with both parties claiming victory. Still, Westmoreland inspired enthusiasm among many of those he commanded. "He was the storybook soldier, South Carolina Eagle Scout, a born leader," retired General Wesley Clark told TIME. "I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon," Westmoreland once noted. "I have no apologies, no regrets...
...classic 1997 debut, Young Team. But rather than coming off like a hodge-podge of oddities, it has a straight and organic flow, peaking with a ballooned-out version of the schizophrenic epic “Like Herod” and coming to rest with a fittingly shoegaze whimper on the fuzzed-out “Stop Coming To My House...
After months of delays and post-ponements, Malaysia's long-threatened crack-down on the country's hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens kicked off with more of a whimper than a bang. As an amnesty expired last week, 30,000 enforcement officers, along with a 300,000-strong volunteer militia, scoured the nation but initially failed to turn up more than a handful of potential violators. In one nighttime raid on a building site near the capital, 300 police and immigration officials rousted sleeping workers from their dormitories and forced them to squat in rows on the ground...