Word: whimpering
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...world may someday end with a whimper, but evidence is mounting that the dinosaurs went out with a bang. According to the much debated theory proposed by the father-son team Luis and Walter Alvarez in 1980, an asteroid or comet slammed into the earth at the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, spewing so much dust into the atmosphere that sunlight was blocked for months. Temperatures plummeted, plants withered, and many species, including the mighty dinosaurs, perished en masse...
...could "press" its view on any significant issue. The best it could do is "state" its view on the South African situation, and hope people listen, especially the Black South Africans. The question remains: Will the University whisper or shout? So far we have heard only a faint whimper...
...Crimson was expected to crush Northeastern but the Crimson didn't expect the hosts to go down without a whimper...
...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...