Word: whimperative
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...upward climb promised a renewal of public jousting over prices between the Administration and industry in general. Since January, steelmen have been boosting prices in bits and pieces-in tubing, then tin plate for can making, followed by hot-rolled carbon and alloy plates-with only a whimper from Washington. Not until just before the Labor Day weekend, when Republic Steel dropped word of new prices in steel bars, did the Administration react. Ackley condemned the move, professing a belated astonishment at the fact that higher prices have already been chalked up "for nearly half the steel tonnage produced...
...Israelis have won a costly advantage, and they don't plan to relinquish it without a whimper as they have in the past. Without a doubt, the Old City of Jerusalem will remain in Israeli hands the other territories of the new "Israeli Empire" will be subject to negotiations. In addition to Jerusalem, the Israelis will require international guarantees -- with a strong commitment from the U.S.-- for the right of free passage not only through the Straits of Tiran but also through the locks of Suez. The Israelis undoubtedly will seek either official recognition from the Arab states...
Still, these are relatively minor objections to a performance of three momentous works that was moving and inspiring. Shure began this year's summer concert series with neither a bang nor a whimper, but with a resounding reaffirmation of the piano and the Nineteenth Century. Euterpe should be pleased...
...national mood opposes moderation, history favors it. It does not vouchsafe us sharp, well-chiselled solutions. It gives us blurrer edges and dull lines. Whatever the ultimate bang or whimper, we can be sure that in between there will be only compromises. Let me begin with the terrible treatment that history has accorded our original justification for this conflict...
When it's dismissal time in TV's gold-paved wasteland, some show folk go quietly, while others go kicking the wastebaskets. Last week, after CBS canceled his Candid Camera program, Creator-Host Allen Funt, 52, went out with a bang and a whimper. Deciding that it was time "for a man to make a public happening of a catastrophe in his life," Funt appeared on a late-hour Manhattan radio show to detail the in glorious mistreatment he had met at the hands of show biz in general and CBS in particular...