Word: woe
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...some diabolical political chemist had poured together strains of virus out of every test tube in the laboratory. An honest, able governor, he has improved roads, schools and state institutions, has worked tirelessly and successfully to increase his state's industrial potential and to ease its agricultural woe. But he is in trouble...
Kefauver's handshaking fetish has caused the Stevenson entourage some anguish. Admits a Kefauver assistant: "It's like pulling a fly off flypaper." Even Nancy Kefauver has her tale of woe. Campaigning with Estes one time, she stepped from a plane to face a howling wind and the prop wash of several other planes. Nancy's hat was imperiled, her skirt began to balloon. Says she: "Just as I grabbed for the hat with one hand and for the skirt with the other, an eager, friendly crowd swarmed up to greet us. Someone thrust...
...Bloody Woe." O'Flaherty's Aran islanders move with a Biblical grace and solemnity. Like Bible stories-also told of a religious, race-proud people of dirtpoor shepherds and fishermen-O'Flaherty's tales deal with sin and the seasons and, as in the Bible, the enemies of simple folk are the money-changers of the towns and the soldiers of a foreign king...
...life had to offer.) To underline his point that man's nature is animal, O'Flaherty has written of hawks, cows, rockfish, conger eels and water hens; their biological tragedies are as bitter as the things that go on inside the heart of men who cry "bloody woe!" He is less successful with his beasts (as was D. H. Lawrence, another important modern writer to try to attempt the same thing) than with his people. Man, it can be argued, is a beast. But a beast...
Other merchants echoed his woe in the sharp decline of French imports. In the villages outside the city the French army auctioned off its surplus to local businessmen, while Vietnamese shopkeepers eyed the stores and stalls of their French counterparts and waited patiently for them to go broke. "We can wait," they told the French, who rejected their absurdly low offers. "Your price will drop...