Word: sobbingly
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...Express. By 1985, when Weill lost a power struggle with white-bread Amex CEO James D. Robinson III and was ousted as president, it wasn't because Weill was Jewish. He was just outmaneuvered. And he left as a multimillionaire. It's difficult for Langley to set a good sob story at Weill's palatial New York City apartment, his Greenwich, Conn., mansion and his daily lunch table at the Four Seasons...
...doesn't Ma wish he were the one in the NBA?even for one game? "Just one game would resolve everything in my life," he says, sighing. "I would know that I could play with the best. It would make my dream come true." And he begins to silently sob...
When I told my sob story to a friend on the rowing team, he smiled and said, “Welcome to my spring...
...independently wealthy, it’s clear that there’s great pressure upon me to go with the former option rather than the latter—come Oct. 1, my Somerville slumlord looking for the rent was not going to be interested in a sob story about how kids today just don’t give a darn about New Hampshire. Live free or die, indeed...
...designated adviser. When someone seeks advice from you, they are admitting that you may have a superior perspective, better than theirs at solving a particular problem. Why else would people be willing to sit for hours on end in the dining hall, listening to yet another sob story about “the Perfect Man”? You don’t really believe they care about your problem. And you certainly don’t believe that the spreader is going to take the advice...