Word: whined
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...purplish tint As though there were gems inside. Now grapes were what our adventurer on strained haunches chanced to crave, But because he could not reach the vine He said, "These grapes are sour, I'll leave them for some knave." Better, I think, than an embittered whine...
...famed Architect Le Corbusier once said: "The house is a machine for living") tries to be functional, but only succeeds in destroying privacy. "The 'living area' becomes an echoing cavern reverberating with every sound from children's yelling to the vacuum cleaner's whine. The open serving hatch [becomes] a television screen, showing a disheveled would-be functionalist trying to cope with a multiplicity of electric contrivances that report their broccoli and onions way beyond their allotted zone." The dining room "where families and friends got to know each other is now ... a counter behind which...
...night last week, the renegades gathered around a tiny stove in their barracks, sang Communist songs in competition with the whine of a wintry wind outside, joked, laughed and gulped down rice wine by the tin-cupful. Among these New Year's Eve celebrants was Claude Batchelor. He was not as happy as he acted. Red rule in the North Camp had begun to wear on the nerves of Peace-Fighter Batchelor. He had been receiving tender letters, supposedly from his Japanese wife (but the majority actually composed by Associated Press staffers in Tokyo), urging him to seek repatriation...
From down the hall came the stutter of machine guns and the whine of planes. "Oh that's our shooting gallery," my guide said. As we entered, two enlisted men on a yeoman's holiday were firing at planes, flashed on a screen by a projector. An electrical apparatus records the hits, while the sound track blares the sounds of battle. "How are you doing?" yelled the Lieutenant. "Little rusty," the sailor yelled back, as a bomb explosion reverberated in the room...
...truce to this Anglo-American bickering, and a plague on those who foment it ... I have this to say to la Phillips of Hove [TIME, Feb. 23]: "Cockney" (and I'm a born Londoner) is an unpleasant whine, "Lancashire" murders the Queen's English and "Mayfair" is definitely, but definitely, effete...