Word: whining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passed the word that we are wrong if we liked any building in the Western Hemisphere constructed after World War II--a few Miami Beach hotels and the work of Frank Lloyd Wright excepted. There is something a little cranky about all this; Wolfe has a tendency to whine, albeit amusingly...
...kind of lucky we live in a country where the little people can talk to the big people every now and then even in the halls of power. And don't be too quick to whine about government taking itself too seriously. It was always Cap Weinberger who used to break 'em up around the Crimson by saying, "Whaddaya think this is, The New York Times...
...bunch, not all wonderful." But she says she sometimes has to remind her Gazette co-workers to set aside personal opinions and emphasize their role as public relations staffers. "A big problem is containing some of the people who are really journalists," she says. "They want to hear the whine of the old bullets and have the freedom to whack it out with the city editor and expose things, but we are not out to expose corruption in the administration...
...judged safer and saner to say nothing and assume the worst than to say the worst and get on with it. Now the insult retreats behind a tinny smile and emerges lame from the mouths of wimps at cocktail parties, grasping soda water in both hands and leveling a whine: "I really don't think much of his work." No confrontations there. Face to face with their adversaries they assault them with flattery. Perhaps it's best. Maybe we could no longer endure a life made up of chaotic barkings and overwhelming...
...whine of powerful engines could be heard inside the pavilion, where compulsories were still underway. A half-mile away, at the other end of this misbegotten amusement park, there was a steep hill, almost a cliff. Men and boys on motorcycles were climbing the hill, charging up its sandy face in five, maybe six, seconds. At the top, some men in leather jackets holding beers were timing. This, they informed me, was "hill climbing." It was, they added, good...