Word: woe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of a people. There are few men so foolish; hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world...
...energy crisis and warnings of limits give Americans a guilty fright; they know perfectly well that they have been squandering with an abstracted heedlessness, consuming on automatic pilot, like the jaws' dreamy working of a wad of gum. "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion," said the prophet Amos...
...soft-spoken Duke professor who likes to psychoanalyze Presidents, has now attempted a more ambitious task: putting the entire American electorate on the couch. In what has been a year of rather cautious punditing, he proposes a provocative new theory of cyclical moods to explain why Presidents get elected. Woe to the candidate who is out of phase with the cycle; no matter what he does, he doesn't stand a chance...
...magazine writer and editor), but "lately he has the feeling that he is not so much pursuing his destiny as furiously racing alongside it, the way cars race trains in old movies." He noodles the lacrimae rerum note. He studies life from a perspective of witty but vaguely narcissistic woe...
...things that seem to be causing the Carter Administration continuing woe these days are 1) overreacting and 2) sending out conflicting signals, especially where the Soviet Union is concerned. Consider the big anthrax scare...