Word: woe
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...years before, wishing she were on the other side. Another woman, Nancy Shibata, 43, was a teen-ager at Tule Lake, where she met her future husband. "I was young enough so that I didn't feel bitter," she remembers. Today the barbed wire causes more wonder than woe. "To look at it after you're out-I said, 'Gee, we stayed in a place like that.' It's amazing that we lived that...
Literature is a seducer, we had almost said a harlot. She may do to trifle with, but woe be to the state whose statesmen writes verses, and whose lawyers read more in Tom Moore than in Bracton...
...Lord God; an adversary there shall be even round about the land; ... the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord... they afflict the just, they take a bride, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right... Woe to them that are at ease in Zion... though they dig into hell, thence shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down... And though they be hid from my sight at the bottom of the sea, thence will I command...
...Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory...
...drove up the cost of eating in 1973 so relentlessly are at work again; foreign demand for U.S. agricultural products is running higher than expected, for example, and the cost of livestock feed has risen sharply. Just for good measure, the energy crisis has added at least one new woe: farmers are currently facing a critical shortage of fertilizers made from natural gas. As a result, consumer food costs now are poised for another big takeoff and will probably keep climbing until midyear...