Word: woe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party, just Willie. This discovery in the end caused woe to many men. For there was a power in Willie Stark, the country lawyer. Reporter Burden, who had covered his phony campaign and seen him broken open by it, saw him again four years later after the primary in 1930. "But it wasn't a primary. It was hell among the yearlings and the Charge of the Light Brigade and Saturday night in the back room of Casey's saloon rolled into one, and when the smoke cleared away not a picture still hung on the wall...
...sweating pony, signaled with his carbine that he was friendly. They looked again and saw that he was a Crow known as Curley, one of the 7th Cavalry's native scouts. Curley hurried aboard the Far West, immediately gave way to "the most violent demonstrations" of woe...
...Gaulle feared that one side or the other of the divided world would try to utilize reborn Germany against the other. "[Germany] must be so placed that she may not become either tempter or tempted. If not, woe once more to the sons and daughters...
...news was variously received. Some cried woe and others hallelujah. Those who cried woe saw abysmal inflation ahead, chaos, the ruination of the nation's economy. Those who cried hallelujah said, in effect: okay, this is going to be all right; we're just going to do things the way we always did them in peacetime...
Emily carries the burden of the title. She alone understands her brother's woe; he dies in her arms. She alone really knows what love can mean, but hides her own love for the curate (Paul Henreid) because Charlotte loves him, too. Even when Charlotte whisks off to London, to be wined & dined by Thackeray (Sidney Greenstreet), Emily remains faithful to the moors. At length, her death slips the leash for Charlotte and the curate...