Word: whining
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...last and greatest sale, that of his own country. It is a somber story of self-respect, of honor and decency being pawned to the Nazis for the price of a soft bed in a luxury hotel. It is a tale of laughter growing old and of the Judas whine of treachery taking its place. It is the record of P. G. Wodehouse, ending forty years of money-making fun with the worst joke he ever made in his life...
...better piece, counted as effective in these maneuvers). As Kidwell disappeared around the bend they resighted their gun to point at the woods across the road. The trouble would probably come from there. It did, within two minutes, heralded by the splintering crash of fences, the shrieking whine of green trees torn apart...
Purr. In Winchester, Va., Robert Wilt complained about the whine in his motor. Mechanics took out a kitten...
...quite comfortable and floating slowly, oh! so slowly, earthwards. I was about 9-10,000 ft. so I had fallen free for about 8 or 9,000 ft. (from 18,000 ft.) and might have fallen further with advantage. ... A Spitfire dived down past me with a high pitched whine, but that was the only disturbance...
Last week as the whine of Claytor Dam's four 2,600-h.p. generators rose over the quiet Virginia hills, the U. S. Supreme Court finally got around to the New River case. Two lower courts had agreed with the power company that it needed no license for its dam, since the New was unnavigable in fact and thus in law. By a 6-2 decision* stated by Justice Stanley Reed, the Court reversed these previous findings, held that the New was navigable, that Appalachian was subject to license and regulation...