Word: whimperings
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...eerie silence descended on the abandoned towns, broken only by the whimper of untended animals and the clatter of looters. Along the roadsides, hundreds of bicycles lay twisted by treads of Croatian armor. There were also bodies. The corpses of two Serbs who had been fleeing on a tractor lay next to a recently harvested field. By midweek nearly every house had had its front door kicked in. Croat soldiers had casually sorted through rooms, collecting what was desirable and often setting fire to a house once they were done. Near the town of Slunj, Milka Jurcic, a 73-year...
Amid continued partisan sniping, the House hearings on the 1993 federal assault against the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended with a whimper, having unearthed few new facts and having elicited no major revelations. Attorney General Janet Reno firmly stood her ground and again defended her decision to go ahead with the tear-gas assault on the complex. "We all mourn the tragic outcome," she testified, "but the finger of blame points in one direction. It points directly at [sect leader] David Koresh...
...Harvard men's tennis team--sporting tans from its Spring Break trip to California--took to the courts yesterday afternoon against Columbia, the defending Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association (EITA), and reduced the Lions to a whimper with a 6-1 win at Palmer Dixon Courts. Columbia 1 Harvard...
...long has it been since the Harvard men's hockey team allowed itself to crumble so tragically, at home, without a whimper or any hint of fighting spirit, bowing to an enemy with so few effective weapons...
...from shouting "your momma" jokes and cracks like "your house is disconnected" at the top of my lungs. The pack is still unopened on my desk. Hardly 50 people made it out to an event that used to draw hundreds. It was nowhere near loud, and hardly even a whimper...