Word: woe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bette tries to be both tickled and modest about her mainstream celebrity. "I really don't even feel I deserve all this," she says earnestly. "I have been a very lucky girl. Now I'm working and doing good work and loving it. I'm not going to say 'Woe is me.' I can't. I'm too happy that anybody noticed I had any talent at all. But I would make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something." Instead of Shakespeare, though, she is preparing yet another comedy, Big Business, in which...
...this was only his first time. I tried to console him, but ended up joining him. It's a puzzle, isn't it? I don't know why grown men care so deeply about something that neither kills, nor starves, nor maims, nor even scratches in our world of woe. I don't know why we care so much, but I'm mighty glad that...
...elusive. Sciences Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story, describes the virus as a bizarre creature that "isn't really life as we know it, but isn't inanimate either. It comes in an endless number of sizes and shapes, each seemingly designed to inflict a different kind of woe on humans, animals or plants." Wallis readily agrees. "Though we've all had the flu, few of us are familiar with the tiny creature that causes...
...Soviet woman's tale of woe directly contradicts a confession she made last June implicating Miller in a plot to pass FBI documents to the Soviets in exchange for promises of $65,000. Ogorodnikova, 36, is serving an 18-year sentence for espionage...
Following this tale of woe came another piece which showed the depth of Harvard's commitment to education. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence, it seems, has finally realized the negative effects of long-term faculty raiding and has proposed bettering the chance junior faculty members have of receiving tenure (he could have looked at the Yankees; how many World Series have they won without a farm system, just throwing money at free agents?). While it shouldn't be hard to imporve junior members' chances--you can't do worse than zero--he has proposed...