Word: whimpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...running debate in the Daily Maroon on the topic: Facts v. Ideas; professors posted arguments on bulletin boards. So preoccupied with intellectual matters is Chicago that when the university dropped out of intercollegiate football last year and abandoned big Stagg Field to schoolboys, students and alumni uttered scarcely a whimper...
...Manhattan by Constantine George Cotzias, 49, Minister-Governor (Mayor) of Athens until the city fell last April. If Mayor Cotzias were in U.S. politics he would inevitably be known as Big Con, for he is 6 ft. 4 in. tall and when he steps on the scales they whimper out 286 lb. He has blazing brown eyes and a magnificent head. With him are his wife, who headed the hospitals of Athens during the gallant six-month struggle, and three children, including his strapping, 23-year-old son, George, who had one more week to go on his medical studies...
Four times Chloe fetched her mother a drink, each time drank a little water herself. On one trip to the sink she heard a whimper from Marquis, who was lying on the kitchen floor. "I went back and asked mother if I shouldn't put Marquis out of his misery. She nodded, so I went and hit him about three times, until he was still." The last glass of water Chloe got she had to pour down her mother's throat because Lolita Davis had "gone out". Chloe washed, dressed, and went out to telephone her father...