Word: whimperative
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From September 20, 1958 to January 15, 1959 the editors of the CRIMSON have suffered all the insults which the academic world has to offer. Failed hour exams, grades off for late papers, all this abuse and more Crimeds have accepted without a whimper. But final exams were the last straw...
Rayburn just let things simmer, then last week he allowed the senior insurgent, California's eight-term Chet Holifield, to enter his office and raise the rules question. Then he gave the answer: No. With little more than the whimper of a face-saving press release, the Democratic revolt curled up and died...
Steely-eyed customs lawmen at London Airport prodded the carpetbags of TV Horse Operactor Hugh (Wyatt Earp) O'Brian, got neither whimper nor glare from the traveling guntoter as they took temporary custody of three Colt .45s, one 14-in. long-barreled Buntline Special, 850 rounds of blank ammunition. On hand to keep Britain's cowpoke fans in the saddle by starring in a wild West hootenanny, the frisked visitor jovially drawled an apology for appearing in grey flannel: "Shucks. I'd feel rather ridiculous riding around in the marshal's outfit...
...brought no peace to Tanguy. He went back to Spain, but found no trace of his mother. He was sent to an orphans' and delinquents' home that might have been imagined by Dickens. It was run by sadistically inclined lay brothers. Tanguy took his beatings without a whimper: he "had exhausted his capacity for crying, just as he had drained away his reservoir of hope...
Five months ago many Cubans thought that Rebel Chief Fidel Castro was through. His much-touted "total war" against President Fulgencio Batista was a total failure; the general strike in Havana that started literally with a bang ended with a whimper as local leaders went into hiding, shrilly blaming one another for the fiasco. That was early April. Last week reports sifting through heavy censorship indicated that Castro had made a notable comeback. Despite the rebels' continued grandstanding and disorganization, the swelling tide of popular discontent had carried them back to a position of strength...