Word: whined
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Classiness can't be coerced. If we don't like a player's celebratory gyrations, we should resort to the fan's traditional outlets. We should refrain from buying his jersey. We should whine. We should boo. Who knows? Maybe the players will listen...
...reminded this week of the fact that long ago, my family used to take vacations in places other than Las Vegas. As a six and seven year old, I would whine for a "glamorous" destination where I could hob-nob and sip champagne with celebrities while my older brother complained that our family was rapidly losing its intellectual edge and we needed to sharpen our minds in a cultural environment. So my weary parents opted for the middle-ground: a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Be it Montana, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Colorado, South Carolina or Virginia, we'd shack...
...have a mental list of acknowledgments of those people who helped us survive the most stressful moments of this process, roommates who knew the right moment to turn up the radio full-blast and sing along as a study break; blockmates and friends who listened to us whine and brought us food when we were too stressed to go to the dining hall, parents who said it would be okay if we dropped out right now, and of course advisors who patiently waited for our delayed chapter drafts and then quickly returned them with comments and suggestions. Don't forget...
...away with it," he said last week. "We're not going to be fooled by somebody who says one thing and absolutely does something else." It is as though Gore has become a stalking-horse for all those elitist liberals, the pantywaists and special pleaders who whine about rights and fairness from the comfort of their ivory towers and whom Bush has reviled since his days at Yale. And Bush has no time for liberal guilt, doesn't believe he should feel guilty at all for the advantages life has bestowed on him; when he says he inherited "half...
After I read how George W. Bush won the South Carolina primary [CAMPAIGN 2000, Feb. 28], it was clear that John McCain's ads comparing Bush to Clinton were right on target. Rather than continuing to whine, Bush should do a bit of soul searching with Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson. Taking the Clinton "I'll do anything to win" road to Washington is nothing to be proud of. The only thing Bush will bring to Washington is hot air from a different party. SHARON FLECK HERMAN Lindenhurst...