Word: woe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glory-shouting, and he does his best to steer clear of pious advice. His main job, as he sees it, is to provide an opportunity for worship to men who are isolated for months at a time. He also tries to be a good listener to tales of woe about women, money and liquor...
...superstitious Englishmen were sure last week that Britain was "for it." "Woe Water" (which only runs just before a calamity) was tumbling down the hillsides of the Caterham Valley, about 20 miles south of London. Had not a bourne flowed out of the hills (according to local legend) before the Restoration in 1660 and the Plague in 1665, and again just before the revolution of 1688? Woe Water had run again in 1915, just two days before the German submarine campaign started, and in 1938, the year of Munich. The non-superstitious scoffed: an exceptionally wet winter had made...
...Queen gave the girls a company flag, and in time Elizabeth worked her way up to be patrol leader-"a distinction," her official biographers carefully point out, "achieved only through merit." At Windsor Elizabeth was the Bosun of the Kingfisher Patrol of the Sea Rangers (seagoing Guides), and woe betide any Ranger who came aboard the flagship (a whaleboat presented by King George) like a landlubber. "Here," she once told her chatterbox sister Margaret, "I am not your sister, and I'll permit no slackness." Margaret, too, can be critical. "Lilibet," she once said, "that's the fourteenth...
...tale of woe about my sleepless night. Pray let TIME name in issues yet to come The poet who so deftly called the strokes Of Dali that they turned on Salvador...
...inefficiency and indifference are bandied about, a closer glimpse at the picture might be appropriate. Survey of the dental situation in the Boston area would show that the University's problem is merely a symptom of a general trend. Throughout New England, throughout the entire nation, the tale of woe seems to be the same--overworked dentists and doctors, overcrowded hospitals, everywhere besieged by long waiting lines...