Word: whimperative
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After the trial, police officers and students talked and joked together in the lobby. One undergraduate was heard to say as he left the building, "this is the way the rumpus ends, not with a bang but a whimper," But all involved expressed satisfaction at the outcome. The University will not take any action against the participants
Dartmouth's Winter Carnival weekend should start off with a whimper this afternoon, when the Crimson swimming team will be a surprisingly top-heavy favorite to defeat Karl Michael's Indian squad. The meet is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Hanover...
...council to deal with, and he took full advantage of that fact. He failed to answer the council's objections for over a month, and when he did he called them mere problems of wording. The council, inexperienced and possibly a trifle scared, took this without a whimper, and the matter was dropped...
...tended the fires lovingly (and profitably) since they first flamed aloft had gone home. Darkness closed in along the neat cement walks separating the rows of bungalows where they had lived. The only sounds in the deserted town were the echo of Iranian sentries' boots and the whimper of an abandoned dog sniffing vainly for the scent of his British master...
Last week in Pasadena's St. Luke's Hospital, Donnie Morton was perking up after an operation to relieve the pressure on his brain. He had already gained four pounds, was able to whimper and "wriggle like live bait" as he lay in his father's arms. Although another operation was scheduled, and Donald's recovery still depended on how quickly nature could rebuild his wasted body, Arthur Morton was convinced that his son would live. "How can you give up?" he said. "Look at the spunk in him. God will not let the spark...