Word: bewails
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...government provided) are restive and so is the growing commercial community, which includes a large number of Palestinian Arabs. They resent the sheiks' autocratic rule (nobody has a vote in Kuwait, and sheiks head all the government offices) and listen avidly to the inflammatory broadcasts from Cairo. They bewail the fact that membership in Nasser's "One Arab Nation" is still denied them. Declared one of the disgruntled: "How can we be happy when so many other Arabs are miserable...
...vain and impotent thing to bewail the dead, the Greek poet Stesichorus once admonished his readers. And no doubt it is; but perhaps some of that fabled $87 million still remains. And if it does, there may be some hope for a raising of the dead. Ah, gentlemen, make the most of what you may yet spend...
...covered with the thoroughness of a paper whose editor believes that "politics and government turn out to be our job." The News's Republicanism, usually confined to the editorial page, gives local Democrats the conniptions. Just last month Mayor Frank A. Sedita, a Democrat, went on television to bewail what he considered lopsided News coverage of his office. But between swipes at the paper, the mayor reads it attentively, takes all but two of the seven daily editions, and in cooler moments has been heard to say that "the news pages have been fair to my administration...
...authority on English history who is retiring to devote his full attentions to research and teaching, Jordan refused to blame the stresses of a college president's job for his decision to resign. He declined to "bewail the lot of the college president and to speak of the herculean burdens which he must bear...
...there is nothing to bewail in Paris Review 10. A literary periodical which can consistently publish fiction no worse than fair deserves a good deal of praise...