Word: whining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slime line's attractive job description entails bending over freezing water as streams of decapitated fish bodies speed toward you. Hands are half-frozen, nearly numb submerged in fishy slop; floors are covered in putrid slime. In the unventilated, enclosed factory, "everything smells like fish," Herne explains, and the whine of the conveyer belt is unceasing...
...always be there, telling silly jokes, making me laugh," said one soft-spoken woman over the clank and whine of the church heaters...
...unfortunate it is, then, that those who have never made the effort to get to know Radcliffe do not practice a similar restraint. The men who tend to whine about Radcliffe's singlesex status apparently know nothing about the case. The majority of Radcliffe-sponsored programs are open to men as well: the Office for the Arts, Education for Action and the Radcliffe Dance Program, for example. What a coincidence the Radcliffe's offerings to the community should tend to cover areas that Harvard has tended to ignore. It has been argued that the existence of Radcliffe helps Harvard...
Even worse than that, however, is her desire to whine about the past instead of concentrating on the future. The council resolved the vice-presidential dispute in a more-than-fair manner. If she cared at all about the effectiveness of the council, she would simply accept the fact that Melissa Garza is the Vice President and let the council go about its business. (It's not as if Rene Reyes isn't on the executive board anyway.) Writing ex post facto letters to the editor simply shows her lack of maturity when it comes to accepting situations she doesn...
...roommates soon grew tired of hearing me whine. As I became infamous for introducing Seattle into every conversation, my friend Nirit developed a parody of this habit, which became a popular request at gatherings of my friends. Nirit was also the one who began referring to it as "the S-word." As in, "Lori, you are not allowed to use the S-word for at least the next twenty minutes...