Word: whining
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...elite institutions, snobbery can breed weakness through its dedication to listening to everything, rather than just hearing it. Too much bubblegum pop music for a snob is like too much highly refined sweet stuff for a five year old: you’ll jump around, hit your little brother, whine when you can’t have your own spaceship and finally collapse in a pitiful heap, your synapses fused together by pink strands of sugar...
...than scary if this is his response to Franken's thought-provoking book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. It is telling that O'Reilly made no attempt to dispute Franken's points; O'Reilly's response is to whine that he can't shoot the messenger. MARCIA HAIR Marietta...
...news media always looks for the negative. Our military is very capable of handling anything that comes their way. The fact that a very small percentage have started to whine about their predicament should not be held against the 97% who do their job well and deserve our utmost respect and support. I support a huge pay increase for those G.I.s that find themselves posted in Afghanistan and Iraq, and anywhere else on the globe where they find themselves actually under fire. James P. Barker...
After reading your story, I felt a bit sick. How can people getting $50,000, $60,000 or $70,000 a year whine that they can't make ends meet? I think those earning that much shouldn't complain; they should just stop spending a lot on unnecessary items. There are thousands of us in America who could live very comfortably on such an income. Try living on $24,000 a year with no raise! KATHLEEN TEWKSBURY Avon...
Klimkiewicz never complained about having to learn a new position after playing shortstop alongside Farkes at Cambridge’s BB&N, nor did he whine about having to do so while recovering from the ACL tear that had sidelined him the previous year. He simply battled through an early-season slump and recovered well enough to keep the Crimson in the league race, including knocking in all four Harvard runs in a backs-to-the-wall game two of the Ivy League championship series win that extended the season...