Word: woe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John and Katherine engage in their desultory first act conversation, however, he poses as a widower who has slept around, but "never with anyone I could care for." The two tell each other tales of woe at great and tedious length, finally retiring for the night on separate couches in Katherine's hotel room...
Each week some 5,000 woe-laden readers of the Chicago Sun-Times's Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers-who is syndicated in 342 other papers-apply to her for solace and advice. They usually get it, sometimes right between the eyes: to the miss who asked how to treat her swain's offer to "get married or something," Ann snapped: "You should get married-or nothing." Last August one of Columnist Landers' greatest admirers, Sun-Times Executive Editor Larry Fanning ("This girl has something beyond mere shrewdness"), detached her for a venture into straight reporting. Assignment: Moscow...
Except for the dateline and the names, Reporter Landers' Russian diary, which has been bought by 55 papers, was barely distinguishable from her running chronicle of domestic woe. She went to Russia, said Landers Fan Fanning, "to find out what the hell people are up to." What people are up to in Moscow, according to Dear Ann, is the same old mischief and misery that fills the capitalist press's lovelorn columns...
...Woe on Wall Street. To exist in the new age of missiles, some planemakers have already drastically changed their companies. Some are still hustling to do so, and some face the grim prospect that they must either merge with a bigger company or shut up shop. The change has already begun to cut heavily into profits. The plane industry, said one broker sadly, is the "only industry in a recession." In the first six months of this year, sales of the 15 largest aircraft companies slipped 5% and profits tumbled 45%. Among the giants, General Dynamics' earnings dropped from...
...news beat unexploited. Bullfighters commonly reserve up to one-third of a season's take for newspaper, radio and TV critics, who might otherwise ungraciously give top billing to the bulls. For pesos the journalists make lackluster movies seem works of art, and prizefighters jewels of virtuosity. And woe betide the motorist who, after an accident, neglects to grease a police reporter's outstretched palm: next day's story may suggest the innocent driver was drunk or (if he is married) in the diverting company of an unidentified señorita...