Word: woe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, there got orders to settle the strike that had cut back production at the Euskalduna works, one of his city's biggest steel plants (TIME, Dec.14). Though newspapers printed no word of the strike and mail from Bilbao was interrupted, the news of Bilbao's woe was spreading by word of mouth. Madrid wanted a settlement, quickly and in silence, before other Spanish workers decided to join...
...tune of $2,200,000 for items acquired but not yet paid for. One day last month Gilcrease went to Claremore to visit the Will Rogers Memorial, dropped into a curio shop run by Claremore's Mayor Jim Hammett. Gilcrease told Hammett his tale of financial woe. Hammett saw a chance to get the Gilcrease collection for Claremore, helped get together a group of influential Oklahomans, headed by Governor Johnston Murray, in a nonprofit corporation to take over the collection as a public trust...
Freud refused to let Martha meet her previous boy friends. "Woe to him if he becomes my enemy," he growled of one of them. "I am made of harder stuff than he is . . . I can be ruthless." He ordered her to stop the practices of religion (orthodox Judaism), to "change her fondness for being on good terms with everybody," to realize that henceforth she belonged only to Freud and must invariably take his side. He rebuked her for having gone "aside to pull up your stockings" while they were taking a walk, and refused her permission to ice-skate...
...patients (one of whom died), pressed it on all his friends (including Martha), and himself took "very small doses of it regularly against depression and . . . indigestion." He wrote a paper describing "the most gorgeous excitement" it aroused in animals, and exulted in the "virility" it aroused in him. "Woe to you, my Princess, when I come," he wrote Martha. "I will kiss you quite red . . . And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body...
Taking care not to nick her big, flat hat, Esperanza Wayne, estranged wife of Cinemactor John Wayne, poked her head out the window of her pickup truck in a fetching demonstration of woe. The truck, used for hauling garbage and dirt about her Encino, Calif, home, "is my only transportation," she wailed. Her Cadillac had been attached for bills run up since she and Wayne parted last year. Esperanza was asking the superior court for $9,000 a month to live on, instead of the $1,100 temporary alimony granted her pending their divorce trial next October...