Word: whined
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...late '60s, when Richard Nixon first declared a health-care "crisis," it was already beginning to sound a little middle-aged and weary. Today, with the health-care situation moving rapidly beyond crisis to near catastrophe, the age-old and obvious solution has the tone of a desperate whine: Why can't we have national health insurance -- like just about everybody else in the civilized world, please...
...summer day on Maple Street. See Dick and Jane play Nintendo. See Mommy and Daddy turn off the switch. Whine, Dick, whine! Pout, Jane, pout...
...people want to whine to me about their problems, they'll find them solved faster than they would like...
Look, I'm not trying to be callous. But what do you want? Sympathy? Dream on. I've got just as much work as you do. You want to impress someone, go talk to your friend at Texas A&M. And don't whine to me when he brags to you about the weather there, either...
...aviation headset, made by Bose, a Framingham, Mass., manufacturer of hi-fi speakers, is one of the latest applications of antinoise, a surprising new technology that is changing the way people block unwanted sounds -- from the whine of electrical transformers to the rumble of internal- combustion engines -- while leaving human voices, alarm bells and other useful sounds untouched. The technology should have many uses: the American Medical Association estimates that more than 9 million U.S. workers are exposed to hazardous noise levels on the job. In some professions -- notably mining, shipbuilding, food processing and printing -- it is not unusual...