Word: whining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Area of Agreement. Churchill lumbered to his feet to reply: "My general impression of his speech was that it was one long whine of criticism against the U.S. ["Scandalous," cried a Labor M.P.] and, of course, of advancing the importance if not the virtues of Communist China ["Nonsense," cried Laborites...
...engineers watched, the 707 's four jets started up with a low whine that rose to a scream, then a roar. The engine tests took three days. Then the chocks were pulled from the wheels, and the big plane rolled down the runway, circled and rolled back again, swaying as Chief Test Pilot Alvin M. Johnston checked rudder and ailerons, bucking as he eased on the brakes. On an earlier taxi test, the 95-ton ship had snapped a landing-gear support, had to be sent back to the shops for repairs (TIME, May 31). Last week "Tex" Johnston...
...engineers lined the runway at their Renton, Wash, plant one sunny day last week to see their swept-wing 707, the first U.S. jet tanker-transport, get ready for her maiden flight. As they watched, Chief Test Pilot Tex Johnson gunned the four engines from an idling whine to a full roar, let the big jet sweep down the runway at 80 m.p.h., then eased on the brakes to test the 95-ton plane's ground response. After the first ground run, Tex gave his opinion: "A lovely ship." But Tex spoke too soon. Taxiing slowly after the fourth...
...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...