Word: whimpers
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...Saint of Bleecker Street) was asked how he would phrase his own obituary. Much moved at the thought of his passing, Menotti ad-libbed a lyric that might be sung to one of his own scores: "Last night while he was having dinner, he suddenly vanished without a whimper, into thin air. A few drops of perfume fell on the table, and a heavenly choir was heard in the distance. As nothing has been heard from him since, we presume that he is dead ... He was a nice man, untidy but gentle, loved by all in spite of his insane...
...Oedipus. In his initiation speech, Cocteau turned the flow of his conversation on the Immortals with a respect tempered only gently by the old glint of satiric impertinence. "The time is coming when one will no longer be able to read or write, when a few mandarins will whimper secrets to each other," he told the assembled academicians. "I express the wish that the academy at that time protect the persons suspected of individualism. I would like to think that our doors would open for the singular persecuted by the plural...
...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...