Word: whimpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fought the men who once stood at his side. McCarthy mocked Iowa's Senator Hick-enlooper, ranted at Indiana's Capehart. He sneered at California's Senator Knowland, saying that it should not be the Republican Party's role "to appease, to whine, to whimper." Crimson-faced, Knowland rose on the floor and roared in protest against the charge...
...while swimming off Marathon Key for the purposes of relaxation and decrease of bodily temperature, I stepped on a Sea Horse, which is not actually a horse, but a protoplasmic thing with no vertebrae. I crushed the life out of it, and it died without a whimper or a gurgle. Robert W.Hill...
...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. To have trumpeted out a brazen declaration of his disloyalty to the creed at this moment might have jarred things too much; but to have left without admitting some error-even if only inefficiency-would have left Georgy Malenkov unreprimanded, in too strong a position. So came his odd confession and the clumsy charade that followed: 1,300 hands raised unquestioningly to accept their premier...
...when a televiewer selects a program on WGBH that interests him, he can expect it to end with a bang, not a whimper. Commercial stations must lop off programs or stretch them out to fit their advertiser's wallets; WGBH hopes to let its programs time themselves. "They'll be like Lincoln's legs," the Director of Programs declares, "long enough to reach the ground...
...never bad to pick up a crying baby unless he has already been spoiled by being picked up too often at the slightest whimper, Sheffield's Professor Ronald S. Illingworth wrote in the British Medical Journal. The only time it is right to let a child "cry it out" is when he is being broken of a crying habit for which parents are to blame...