Word: woe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immediately, that fact was encouraging. But in the long view it might be the portent of disaster. If, with the troops moved from China, the Jap took India, shutting off U.S. aid, China's glory might become China's woe, might upset all the United Nations' long-range plans...
...Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord...
...heavy, wheeled stretcher from its intricate moorings on the floor of the ambulance, and in twisting it up two flights of tortuously curved Victorian steps. After they accomplished the ticklish task of lifting the old lady to the stretcher and carrying her down, she added much to their woe, when nearing the hospital, by insisting that they all return immediately to rescue a pan of stewing prunes from her stove...
Telling worried Freshmen how to study, take notes, keep healthy and be successful Harvard men, the latest pamphlet to come from the Bureau of Supervisors advises '46 on all problems of collegiate woe...
...grain whiskey and Swedish aquavit. They turn the radio on to the Minnesota game and raise the volume to the limit. Then the whole bunch of them sit around yelling "ski-yu-mah" and singing "Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee" until the Golden Horde has trounced another poor opponent. Woe to the hapless Nebraskan or Indianan who stumbles on their festivities and refuses to raise his voice in praise of the Gophers...