Word: whimpering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before the Supreme Soviet while his startling admission of incompetency was read out: "I . . . request to be relieved." There was a reason for Malenkov's whimper: the regime could not afford a bang. So came his odd confession and the clumsy charade that followed: 1,300 hands raised unquestioningly to accept their premier's resignation...
...Fleet Street, other editors pounced on Stern and the rival Sunday Times with a vengeance that in this instance seemed justified. "It was the day the thunder of the Times turned into a whimper and the Sunday Times was forced to sniff the stench of self-deceit," crowed the Daily Express. Its story accused "the executives" of Stern and the Sunday Times of having committed "the biggest journalistic blunder for years...
...historical punning proved misguided. The crisis fizzled with a whimper, euphemistically dubbed a "minor realignment" of the exchange rates crucial to European trade. Yet the image lingers: French Finance Minister Jacques Delors attacking the "arrogance and insensitivity" of his German colleagues while threatening to leave the European Monetary System (EMS), float the franc, and follow a franc and jolt France's trading posture into chaotic disrepute...
...strangely quiet denouement to one of the dirtiest, sloppiest, most wasteful takeover battles in U.S. corporate history. At its height, the contest was an unseemly spectacle of "cannibals gorging on one another," in the apt metaphor of Television Commentator Bill Moyers. Last week it ended with a whimper. In meetings at Southfield, Mich., and Morristown, N.J., shareholders of Bendix Corp. and Allied Corp. formally approved the merger of their companies. There was scarcely any dissent, but there was some sober reminiscing. Allied Chairman Edward L. Hennessy Jr., 54, said of the torturous maneuvering leading to the $2.3 billion deal...
...goal deficit and its eventual overtime victory managed to be less than inspiring. In past years, when fans filed in for the late game and saw Northeastern playing they took interest and cheered on the Huskies. This time the opener met with massive indifference. Appropriately, it ended with a whimper, not a bang, when Jim Averill's off-speed shot dribbled past Harvard's backup goalie...