Word: whined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eerie stillness haunts the desolate plains of eastern Australia. Plows rest immobile in their sheds; paddocks remain withered and empty. For day after enervating day, nothing relieves the silence but the whine of hot, fierce winds whirling precious topsoil into dust clouds and the occasional squawks of crows wheeling above the carcasses of livestock...
...members of the 4077 will continue indefinitely to act bonkers, save lives and refresh viewers' spirits. Radar will lose and find his Teddy bear and, maybe, lose his virginity. Klinger will show up in that cunning little chiffon number he bought in Seoul. Frank will fritter and whine and cluck like a chicken. B.J. will keep trying to prove he is not the most decent soul south of the 38th parallel. Winchester will open another picnic basket from Mater and savor caviar on a tongue depressor. Father Mulcahy will smile and sigh. Trapper will somehow keep his balance...
...scene: a road-racing course for sports cars set in wooded, rolling terrain an hour north of Atlanta. Noise, crowds, confusion, the racketing whine of unmuffled racing engines as drivers repeatedly blip their throttles in anticipation of the start. For a week now the Sports Car Club of America has been running its national championships here on the twisting 2½-mile Road Atlanta track. Paul has been here a week, and Joanne arrived a couple of days ago to join him. "We have a deal," he says. "I trade her a couple of ballets for a couple of races...
...attorney representing Harvard in the case said this week he would have no comment. Trowbridge "doesn't want this case publicised and I'll respect that," said Thomas Porter, of the Boston law firm of Parker, Coulter. Duley and Whine...
...smarmy to his elders and sneering to his peers. "Hey, Wally, if your gunky brother comes with us, I'm gonna Oh, hello, Mrs. Cleaver, I was just telling Wallace how pleasant it would be for Theodore to accompany us to the movies." In his high-pitched whine, Beaver supplied the bittersweet moral: "You know, Wally, I guess even creeps like Eddie got to have friends...