Word: whining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Growls & Whines. Pulverized rubber, burned off the tires by the rough brick track, soon painted a black film on drivers' faces. Some drivers carried powder-puffs, some chamois, to wipe smudged goggles. The cars bounced down the rough straightaway, giving off pungent exhaust fumes; the vibration was hard on drivers' wrists and backs. But the awareness that each turn might mean disaster kept them tense and alert. The basso profundo of a Mercedes growled sullenly out below the whine of Maser and Offenhauser engines as the pack circled the 2½-mile oval...
...reformer as ever. But he admits that the island has problems not easily solved by fiat, or entirely blamable on U.S. economic exploitation-the depleted farm land, the density of population, the "hard, slick" politicos, the precious Spanish-tropical dignidad, and what Tugwell learned to call the "colonial whine...
What does, however, infuriate me (and many others) are those people over here-more vociferous than numerous-who whine that your country has some sort of moral obligation to provide for us and for the rest of the world. If you have wealth and comfort and luxury foods (relative to our standards), you have earned them. Your ancestors had the courage to leave Europe and start hard and dangerous lives in a new country. You are a wealthy nation today because of your work, your healthy individualistic philosophy, your courage, your scientific achievements and your unmilitaristic foreign policy. You deserve...
With a faint, abstracted smile, like a man trying to remember his first girl, Liang plucked out clear notes with the fingernails of his right hand; made them whine and sob with his left. Those who gave up listening for familiar chords (and trying to ignore the weird half tones which almost invariably followed) were rewarded with a dreamy sense of Confucius' "peace among the people...
...something special: Bob Wills was celebrating his 30th anniversary as a cowboy fiddler. For the occasion, he played his 35th new tune, a fox trot called G.I. Wish ("G.I. . . . wish that I were free to roam, G.I. wish that I were home"). It had the same kind of whine, the same kind of maudlin lyrics that put his Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima and Smoke on the Water among the nation's top-selling folk records last year...