Word: whining
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...take out the measuring tape to check out those sophomore rooms in Lowell, or start memorizing the shuttle's timetable. Don't whine about Mather's less-than-beautiful exterior or Leverett's less-than-average food...
...wrapped in plastic foam. In Las Vegas, at Caesars Palace, where he regularly performs, he and his wife of 11 years, Mavis Nicholson, disagree about whether they are staying in the same room as last time. "Honey, I know it's the same room," he says with a slight whine. "I fixed the toilet last time, and I had to fix it again last night...
...interhouse restrictions at lunch are totally unfair and I intend to out-whine even the most calculated and semiotically obscure argument that the most deconstructively practiced Adams House student can muster...
...such a boring couple," I always whine. And for a while, I had him believing that it was the fault of his cold, unromantic Yankee Stoicism that we frequented the Hong Kong and talked about Scheme Z more often than we took lingering walks along the Charles under the full moonlight, exchanging intimate secrets...
Within minutes, Pearl Harbor was pandemonium: explosions, screams, tearing steel, the rattle of machine guns, smoke, fire, bugles sounding, the whine of diving airplanes, more explosions, more screams. With Battleship Row afire, Fuchida's bombers circled over the maze of Pearl Harbor's docks and piers, striking again and again at the cruisers and destroyers and supply ships harbored there...