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Word: whined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...question of whether six-year-olds have a sense of right and wrong: absolutely. Kids whine about unfairness almost as soon as they can whine. They instinctively justify their social retaliations--physical or not--as just deserts. Kayla probably died because her killer felt he was wronged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age of Innocence? | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...Carlos says that the Harvard students he drives are almost always friendly and polite. His one criticism refers to a familiar, time-honored tradition of Harvard conversation: the interminable whine. "They're always complaining that (their classes) are too hard," he says with laugh. "I understand that they've got a lot of work...

Author: By Toc. Berkman, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Life in the Driver's Seat: Confessions of a Cambridge Cabbie | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

...George W. Bush household. Millions of people would give literally anything to get their kids into a school like Harvard, and millions more simple admire it as another, brighter world. Knowing them and what they think of the opportunity you've got, it'll be a lot harder to whine about Group II. Out in the Real World, you'll hear what someone should have told you since your first day in the Yard: you've already made it. So work hard, but for the love of Henry A. Kissinger '50, don't whine about...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Join the Harvard Corps | 2/29/2000 | See Source »

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