Word: whining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Republicans may whine about the "gloom and doom" and the rampant inflation of the Carter years. Soaring inflation and interest rates during the Carter years had less to do with national policies than with an unfavorable world financial scene caused by the energy crisis. And the drop in oil prices during the Reagan years, likewise, should not be credited to the Administration...
...finally, a sympathetic, critical champion, gently guiding an audience to proper appreciation of the artist's gifts. Simple things, yes. But how hard they are to come by, what luck is required in the quest, and how rarely artists themselves confront their difficulties in an engaging spirit. The whine of self-pity, the bombast of self-aggrandizement, the low moan of tragedy are the notes most often heard from the creator on the subject of his life...
Ailes has been coaching Bush since 1985, teaching him to slow his speech and keep his voice from rising to a reedy whine. At Ailes' urging, Bush painfully learned what not to do by watching hours of his awkward TV appearances. Ailes spent a week priming Bush for his announcement speech and was with Bush before the Rather interview, which Ailes had insisted be live, and suggested the cool counterpunch about Rather's walkout. "If a reporter is bullying you, the viewers at home may start to root for you," Ailes advises in his book You Are the Message...
...tape had recorded gunshots, then the sound of pounding on the cockpit door and what the FBI termed the "unauthorized entry" into the flight deck. This was followed by scuffling and shouts in what one investigator described as "a terrible commotion." Finally came a high whine, presumably created by air rushing out of the pressurized cockpit through a bullet hole in a window or wall. Patricia Goldman, head of the National Transportation Safety Board's on-site investigators, said they could find "no apparent problems with the aircraft, frame, structure or engines" that would have led to the crash. Other...
...best thing about the book is the endless procession of anecdotes--some true, some apocryphal, and some obvious tall tales. Hear Bobby Riggs bitch and whine his way into psyching-out tennis champ Margaret Court. See Minnesota Fats make a winning pool shot a split-second before the floorboards buckle underneath him and he falls into his basement...