Word: moaner
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...acquaintances that I began to realize the extent of my notoriety. And those rumors were rich. I'd learned that I was the biggest bitch to hit the 'Cliffe; that I was the most promiscuous miss in town, well-nigh a nymphomaniac; that I was, get this, a Moaner, a Screamer, a Scratcher; that I was the Body-by-Fisher Fisher (I wasn't) and as a baby heiress I'd been promised to a son of my daddy's tycoon pal; that I was a Lesbian...
...hampered by injuries for the past two seasons, Maris was scarcely surprised. "I can't complain," he shrugged-but neither could the Yankees. Maris's salary was $75,000 a year, and Smith's is $20,000. When somebody mentioned that Smith, like Maris, is a "moaner," one of the Yankee brass cracked: "Sure, he is. But he moans in a lower bracket...
...Goodenough of the American made the most outspoken approval of Jordan. In a "Letter to President Pusey," he declared, "Jordan is a real man; he's not a moaner or alibi artist as are some of his contemporaries.... If this fine coach is removed, it will be a disgrace to the University and to Harvard football....Why not get some players instead? Or why not drop football entirely...
...loose, rush about, rearrange themselves in new patterns. The extra gram that had set the Middle East fissioning and fusing was the sale of Communist arms to Egypt. Last week this dance of the atoms was going on to the accompaniment of shudders, groans and forebodings from the journalistic moaner's corner, led by those partners in anguish, the Alsop brothers. But despite their outcries, all was not yet lost in the Middle East...
...Manhattan's biggest bookshops, a salesman gestured cynically toward his Christmas customers. "Give them a fat historical novel and they'll trample every good book in the place to get to it." It was a familiar moan in the book business-even when the moaner had to raise his voice to be heard above his booming cash register. Yet as a summary for 1949 the judgment was too jaundiced. It was true that popular puddings were as plentiful as usual, with old practitioners like Frank Yerby, Marguerite Steen and F. van Wyck Mason tirelessly serving them...