Word: whimperative
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...human worth," to use the least ridiculous phrase left when they deny such worth in opponents. And having put a mental X across the enemy faces one might as well, for efficiency, toss in an anti-personal grenade (though Etymology, a certain old bleeding-heart professor-emeritus, might whimper that "anti-personnel" is "substantially equivalent" to "in-human...
...lion accepting all this without a whimper or white? you ask. Sutherland gestures towards the press agent. "Ask him," he says. (And naturally the press agent smiles, shakes his head in agreement, immediately directs the conversation back towards Sutherland.) "So long as I occasionally talk about Ale?." Sutherland adds...
...your article "Smog Goes Global" [Aug. 10J, you state that "the world will end with a cough, a wheeze, a mass gasp of emphysema." Not so. Poetically, and ironically enough, it will end with a whimper-of a newborn baby. Pollution is only the major symptom of the very fatal disease called overpopulation...
...With a Whimper...
...jazz to low-down blues to gospel singing. Gruff and virile of tone, but now obviously a star, Joe belts out his songs as to the manna born. He knows just when to shout, just when to pout, just when to let a phrase die with a low, sad whimper. At the Fillmore, Cocker's group came on, in fact, a bit like a white revival meeting. With his friends churning away at an old Julie London hit, Cry Me a River, Joe created a shouting, cathartic revival hymn...