Word: whine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seat-belt sign has flashed on, and the engines begin to whine as the big California-bound jet prepares to lumber out for takeoff at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. Suddenly the pilot announces that there will be a half-hour delay. Reason: traffic is backed up on the runways. Later, flying over the Rockies, the passengers have more reason to gripe. The plane is being tossed by turbulence, but the pilot cannot avoid it because ground controllers have refused to let him change course in the jammed air corridors. Finally, as San Francisco Bay comes into...
...after eight hours of psychological testing, applied to everyone down to the lowliest employees. Once in, ITT executives speak to and socialize almost exclusively with other ITT people. The club has a mania for security; paper-shredding machines like the one that chewed up ITT's Washington files whine continually in most ITT offices. Returning from Washington on a company plane last week, Geneen cracked: "Now I guess we'll have to acquire a company that makes paper-shredding machines...
...Boys Choir joined the Glee Club for the Thomas Weelkes When David Heard. The Choir, prepared by Theodore Marier, is an impressive group. They are weak at the beginning of pieces, though, with a noticeable tendency to whine out the first notes, belying their true ability. When they sing into the upper range, they produce a sound absolutely unearthly--a sound no female voice could match. Dissonances in the soprano register are far more jarring than the same notes in the tenor or bass, and this effect was used advantageously in the Weelkes...
...foothills of Lebanon's Mount Hermon last week, the quiet of almond-blossom time was shattered by the whine of jets, the clatter of tank treads and the thunder of explosions. Israel continued its attacks on Palestinian guerrilla bases inside Lebanon (TIME, March 6), and the fighting there indirectly led to a skirmish on the Syrian border and at least temporarily deprived the fedayeen of one more base of operation against Israel...
...away are the supermarkets crowded with housewives in shorts and minis, the fried-chicken drive-ins and the wig-care salons. The staples of this new life are beer, sports and steak dinners. Power mowers whine all day Saturday, and on Sunday mornings the streets are full of prebreakfast car washers. Every suburb has its lawn bowls club, its public tennis courts and golf course, and many of the young elite are developing such affluent addictions as saunas, big-game fishing, ski weekends and even a little group...