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Word: whimpering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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...your article "Smog Goes Global" [Aug. 10J, you state that "the world will end with a cough, a wheeze, a mass gasp of emphysema." Not so. Poetically, and ironically enough, it will end with a whimper-of a newborn baby. Pollution is only the major symptom of the very fatal disease called overpopulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 31, 1970 | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

...With a Whimper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 31, 1970 | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

...jazz to low-down blues to gospel singing. Gruff and virile of tone, but now obviously a star, Joe belts out his songs as to the manna born. He knows just when to shout, just when to pout, just when to let a phrase die with a low, sad whimper. At the Fillmore, Cocker's group came on, in fact, a bit like a white revival meeting. With his friends churning away at an old Julie London hit, Cry Me a River, Joe created a shouting, cathartic revival hymn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Which One Is Joe? | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...human life," the only sure way to obtain quality is by limiting quantity. If there exists a broad consensus among scientists, it is that the imperative of our age is the population dynamic, and that, if the end comes, it comes not with a bang, nor even a whimper, but rather with a birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1970 | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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