Word: woe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ismay-"Operations in which large numbers of men may lose their lives ought not to be described by code-words which imply a boastful and overconfident sentiment, such as 'Triumphant,' or, conversely, which are calculated to invest the plan with an air of despondency, such as 'Woe-betide,' 'Massacre,' 'Jumble' ... After all, the world is wide, and intelligent thought will readily supply an unlimited number of well-sounding names which ... do not enable some widow or mother to say that her son was killed in an operation called 'Bunnyhug...
...those London cocktail parties where everybody showed up with a hangover. The host, a distinguished novelist named Graham Greene,* roamed restlessly about his book-cluttered flat, listening to the mock-tragic tales of woe. Not to be outdone, the host confessed that he too was feeling like hell: he had been up all night drinking with his priest...
Before a Senate subcommittee last week appeared a little man with a long tale of woe. The man was Sidney Gould, head of a small Brooklyn company which nickel-plates towel racks and auto bumpers. His woe was the black market in nickel. "To get any nickel," he told the Senators, "you practically have to open a peep hole and say 'Benny sent me.' Of course, if you want to pay the price and meet the terms-meaning cash so the OPS can't keep track-then there's no shortage...
...Army veteran who had dropped $557 in a poker parlor came to the pastor with his tale of woe. George followed his directions ("Turn right at the top of the stairs, seventh door along the corridor on the right") and barged into a thriving dive just above the town's Bible Book Store...
...Stabilization Agency last week issued a broad and hazy price proclamation aimed at almost every businessman. ESA asked for a general freeze on prices except farm products (about which ESA can do little), and a rollback of price increases since Dec. 1. The freeze was voluntary, said ESA, but woe to the businessman who didn't obey. ESA warned that anyone who did not cooperate would be punished when "feasible," apparently meaning when ESA makes the order mandatory and gets some price cops...