Word: woe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woe. Since its birth, Dec. 5, 1941, the Chicago Sun has had a pile of woe. But its greatest weakness has been a lack of one of the basic requirements of newspaper success: high morale on the staff...
Pete DeCenzie manages Des Moines' Casino Theater, where customers pay 20? before 1 p.m., 30? before 5 p.m. and thereafter 40? to see second-rate movies and bush-league burlesque ("Midnight Show Tonight . . . Red Hot Thrills . . . Adults Only"). Last week Manager DeCenzie was full of woe. Said he: "I had no idea. . . . I certainly was surprised. ... I was shocked to death...
...ghost of a woe nine years dead rose up last week and reeled drunkenly across the U.S. stage. His hour was gaudy, but brief. At week's end no innocent bystander would have begrudged Senators and Congressmen a couple of stiff quickies to quiet their jumpy nerves. For a few moments it had looked as if Prohibition might come back...
...Congress, the only body through which a democracy can fulfill its principle of "Government by the people," had taken a frightful beating at the hands of public opinion. Experts, analysts, prognosticators had said repeatedly that the people's wrath would show itself at the polls this fall-that woe would betide the Representative, the Senator, the Governor, the politician who had fallen short of his duty in the past twelve months. This theory now seemed to be so much nonsense...
...swamped him. Calhoun not only has everything under control but at his fingertips. He keeps his own index of Navy tankers, knows every moment where each one is. No man dares tell him a job has been done if it hasn't-Calhoun knows in an instant, and woe betide the offender (although the Admiral may ask him to lunch half an hour later...