Word: woe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Connor clocked such a fast first run that Bibbia made a dangerous mistake trying to catch up and came to woe at Shuttlecock. With Bibbia disqualified, Doug Connor was an easy winner and once more the undisputed champion of Cresta...
...insist on comfortable surroundings. Any distress at last week's off-Broadway opening of August Strindberg's Easter was caused by the play and the production, not by the theater. To come off at all, the palely symbolic, poorly translated Easter-which creates joy out of the woe of a bedeviled Swedish family in the period from Maundy Thursday to Easter-needs not only sensitive acting but a unified acting style. Instead, Producer-Director David Ross came up with little good acting and no acting style...
...some diabolical political chemist had poured together strains of virus out of every test tube in the laboratory. An honest, able governor, he has improved roads, schools and state institutions, has worked tirelessly and successfully to increase his state's industrial potential and to ease its agricultural woe. But he is in trouble...
Kefauver's handshaking fetish has caused the Stevenson entourage some anguish. Admits a Kefauver assistant: "It's like pulling a fly off flypaper." Even Nancy Kefauver has her tale of woe. Campaigning with Estes one time, she stepped from a plane to face a howling wind and the prop wash of several other planes. Nancy's hat was imperiled, her skirt began to balloon. Says she: "Just as I grabbed for the hat with one hand and for the skirt with the other, an eager, friendly crowd swarmed up to greet us. Someone thrust...
...life had to offer.) To underline his point that man's nature is animal, O'Flaherty has written of hawks, cows, rockfish, conger eels and water hens; their biological tragedies are as bitter as the things that go on inside the heart of men who cry "bloody woe!" He is less successful with his beasts (as was D. H. Lawrence, another important modern writer to try to attempt the same thing) than with his people. Man, it can be argued, is a beast. But a beast...