Word: whimperative
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...Cape Cod Novelist Taylor finds just the setting and the people to suit him. Its crusty old characters are dying out, but the ones Taylor describes are more likely to cackle than to whimper when their time comes. True, their role is no longer heroic, and they are more apt to die in bed than at sea. But old codgers like Uncle Veenie and Captain Ezra Cobb are firmly in the Yankee tradition, and they are as slick at fleecing the summer folks as ever their forebears were at trimming the sails...
...defense needs last September. He found that the best deal he could get out of the New Look was 127 wings. Air Forcemen drew breath for a great scream of outrage, but Twining passed the word: no complaints. The scream was stifled; Air Force sources let out not a whimper...
...deplore the play further is useless. Escapade is here, though not for long. The reception of the first two English plays this season could be a warning to Mr. Eliot, however. He had best be prepared for a whimper...
...days he had "the strength of 20,000 cockneys"; on others he was "sunk as in tropical oppression" with a "base, underhand desire to lie down in everlasting leaden sleep." Sometimes the limp writing hand he held out for Jane Carlyle to pat was only slapped, and Carlyle would whimper, "You are not good to me just now." But more often she fought the literary battle out at his side, freely giving the encouragement he needed...
...than one-third of its 1947 circulation of 433,000. There are also signs that the new Communist "get-tough" policy for France leaves little room for weak papers that can't make their own way. Last month the pro-Communist weekly Action quietly folded without even a whimper of protest from party headquarters. Despite the rioting, the Paris police have no intention of restricting the Communist press. Said a Ministry of Interior official: "We can't do anything to a paper just because it's Communist. But let them break...