Word: woe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dennison might have been able to salvage the play with incisive dialogue or characterization. Instead he lets the hobos--philosophers, the mistress of ceremonies calls them--mumble some chit-chat about death and human woe. Sometimes they paraphrase the Bible ("Man is dust--that's the main thing"), and sometimes, like one of Beckett's characters, they talk of how it would be better not to have been born...
With a crowd of about 150 chanting "We're number one" after every Eliot goal, Karl Rosenberger defected Woe Simmons' blue-line shot past the surprised Yale goalie for the only score of the second period. Eliot goalie "Itek" Etcheverry prevented the Elis from closing the gap with two sprawling saves on breakaway attempts...
...Indian territory. To the east and west lies the dilemma that is Pakistan, and the question of how to proceed with the truce agreement that Shastri negotiated with President Ayub Khan at Tashkent. At home, India is plagued by famine, rising unemployment, and just about every other woe that an overpopulated, poverty-stricken land is heir...
...Alas and woe!" the student cried, his books clutched to his breast...
...17th century came the beginnings of the modern idea of the family with the child at its center. With greater concern for children and more schooling came a new stage of life between childhood and adulthood: adolescence, a new combination of weal and woe that has profoundly altered human institutions and attitudes...