Word: whimpering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when both Walter Mondale and George Bush found themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to show that they were not wimps. Few dictionaries include the word; it may surprise some who use it that, according to Eric Partridge's slang dictionary, it means "a (young) woman," perhaps from "whimper...
...have 20 years' worth of material to study." The final witness was Ruth Eliaz. After she bore a child, she reported, Mengele strapped her breasts with tape and settled down to see how long it took an unfed infant to die. When the emaciated child was reduced to a whimper, Eliaz was given a syringe and some morphine by a female Jewish doctor. Then, she recalled, choking back tears, "I murdered my own child...
Here we go again; another four years of our national soap opera, with Reagan playing the lead role. But how will the script end, with a whimper or a bang...
...remember that guy Back before he took over from Leonid. Yuri had your boys do a check on him Tried to get him to acquiesce in our subversion campaign against Harvard students. It was no problem. We got that Core passed through the Faculty with barely a whimper. So what's going on in Cambridge...
...departed, the sidewalks were bare. The cranes from the subway had taken their flight. And even the gatehouse was closed for the night. (Inside it, the gatemice were snoring space. Though they didn't, it's true, have a whole lot of space.) Not a yell or a whimper, a drum or tape-player Was heard from the depths of Holworthy or Thayer. The deans and their cohorts had left for points South And those left behind were too down in the mouth To join up with the crowds crushing in at the door To buy gifts for their families...