Word: whining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among musicians, cellists are known as incurable sentimentalists. This quality is half-humorously assumed, partly because of the tightlipped, tear-laden whine the instrument so easily develops in its upper register, partly because of the overenthusiastic use of that register by romantic composers. One cellist who does not deserve the description is the Chicago Symphony's Budapest-born Janos Starker, 31, who is unsentimentally aware that he is one of the world's finest cellists...
Christmas hit, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. This year's subadolescent hit, if any, is slow to show, but according to both M-G-M and Columbia, a number called Nuttin' for Christmas is showing frightening signs of life. Sample lyrics, usually sung in a piercing whine...
...attacked, but he fought the men who once stood at his side. McCarthy mocked Iowa's Senator Hick-enlooper, ranted at Indiana's Capehart. He sneered at California's Senator Knowland, saying that it should not be the Republican Party's role "to appease, to whine, to whimper." Crimson-faced, Knowland rose on the floor and roared in protest against the charge...
Moving northward from Manhattan's Times Square through the garish canyon of Seventh Avenue, the traveler finds a varied evening cacophony. Bus engines whine. Subway trains roar through sidewalk gratings. On a corner a Salvation Army band pleads Onward! Christian Soldiers. Suddenly, through an open door, comes a shattering crash and a high-pitched wail, and a competing hymn bounces through the tortured air: When the Saints Go Marching...
...German war machine. Fuzzy-cheeked youngsters try to hold positions that crack divisions could not defend, commanders cannot reach the Führer because he is dillydallying at his own birthday party. But these vivid vignettes cannot quite redeem the novel's major flaw-that its men whine louder than its bullets...