Word: whimperer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, amid the groan of earth-moving machines, police called for silence. Then during the eerie, deathly lull, everyone listened for the faint whimper of a trapped child...
...danger, then, is that the state governments will continue to do their present jobs a little better and to ignore the jobs they might do. Their decline may come not with a whimper but a yawn...
...pity that such a great show had to end with such a whimper as the finale of popular dances that for some reason was tacked at the end. Aside from that, however, this is a really fine show. It is a pleasant surprise to find so much dancing talent among Harvard undergraduates, so many good-looking Cliffies in Jazz Dance "costumes," so much ability, spirit, and emotion in a Harvard show...
...that jargon about repression and frustration and absurdity Tom and Teena really do have feelings and are just scared shitless. As one character so subtly puts it. So we learn in the end that Tom can bawl like the kid he is at heart and Teena can pout and whimper like the bourgeois wife she wants to be. And when that baby comes along, oh Mama, they're so happy and thrilled and in love that you could just cry and cry. You see, life had to teach them something -- that they can't run away from themselves...
...nasty campaign of harassment against Americans, Indonesia's President Sukarno has stopped their mail, scared off their servants, sacked their libraries and threatened to seize some $417 million worth of their property-all with scarcely more than a whimper from Washington. But Sukarno finally went too far: he began messing with New York World's Fair President Robert Moses, the Phurious Pharaoh of Flushing Meadow...