Word: whimperative
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...anymore. In 1986, Gabriel started to care about love and sex. He released So, an album whose first single, "Sledgehammer," contained such provocative lines as, "Show me around your fruitcage/ 'cause I will be your honeybee." Sure, Gabriel still included "Don't Give Up," the whimper of an unemployed worker on the verge of suicide. But "In Your Eyes" was a love song--unabashedly so. It even made the soundtrack to the teen film Say Anything. Gabriel had changed...
...deadline came and went last month, with barely a whimper from Harvard. The military continues to expel homosexuals from its ranks; the University continues to sponsor an off-campus ROTC program...
...members of the Class of 1992 had just moved into their sophomore rooms when the storm struck. They had all been bracing for The Big One, but when Hurricane Hugo hit the shore, it was with more of a whimper than a roar...
...Harvard Indoor track teams ended their season last weekend with a whimper and a yell...
...Milosevic and his regime are clearly not not going to bow out with a whimper. In three tense marathon sessions of the collective federal presidency (made up of representatives of all six republics and the two Serbian provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo), Jovic, backed by the army chief of staff, had pressed for a military crackdown. "Milosevic is a fighting man," said Milovan Djilas, a dissident communist who was jailed repeatedly by Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the 1950s and '60s. "He won't go for a fundamental change of policy...