Word: whimperers
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This is not simply because the U.S. role in that conflict ended with a whimper; unreconstructed Southerners and the Irish have shown how immortal ballads rise from lost causes. But Viet Nam dragged on too bitterly and too long to be tucked comfortably into a corner of the mind. Between the memorable images of self-immolating monks and returning American P.O.W.s, there stretched a decade of contradictory violence and rhetoric that splintered the country. Trying to remember, much less grasp, that history now seems like reopening a scar...
...doubt stunned by the miserably frigid weather, the Crimson started with a whimper against B.U. as the hardy Terriers jumped out to a quick 4-0 lead. But Peter Hilton's try and a conversion by Dave Albala gave Harvard the lead...
...aside the question of "genes." Let us stand before the mirror and put aside our denim jeans and see our animal heritage. A father will quickly defend his home against an intruder without using a textbook (except as a weapon). The mother needs no more data than a whimper or tear to rush to comfort her child. We act instinctually despite sociobiology's attempts to prove...
...like lights in an office building at closing time−when mankind has fulfilled its purpose and determined all the names of God. In fact, stars do go out, but for reasons that are much more complex, and in a variety of ways: some end with a whimper, others with a bang...
...woman who allowed her, and, vicariously, the reader, into her home, to observe, to question and to describe. Sheehan is familiar enough to be there when Santana discovers her son is mainlining heroin; but is that so routine that Santana accepts it in stride, without a moan or a whimper even? So it appears from the description the reader is offered...