Word: woe
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Still, the rules require that teams show up each year, so the Braves and Twins made their obligatory appearances this summer and quite suddenly they were no longer woe-begone clubs...
...Heigh-ho, primary woe," sang the Fool, jingling the little bells...
Othello's very evident aggregation of wasted and misdirected talent exacerbates the woe. Jeff Branion has remarkable stage presence as Othello, but his considerable energies dissipate in delivery. Jonathan Hamel displays flashes of brilliance as Iago, but his overall characterization seems more vaudevillian than menacing...
Because the 911 system can never be abandoned -- woe to the mayor of any city in which the police cannot be summoned quickly during a break-in -- many departments are looking at ways to cut down on the number of calls. In the Denver suburb of Aurora, where only about a fourth of an estimated 190,000 calls each year are for real emergencies, police operators perform "911 triage." Where appropriate, they direct nonemergency callers to other city agencies. Police officers take the less urgent crime reports over the phone...
...Sagrada Familia is . . . the reflection of the soul of the people. Woe the day that it is halted!" -- Catalan poet Joan Maragall...