Word: woe
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...attempts to find synonyms for "win," "trounce," and "beat." Admittedly minor sports schedules do not lend themselves to creativity, but this simply emphasizes the need to use the half page or so for each sport in some more elegant way than in a chronological summary of successive jubilation and woe...
...Jane was neither a gay deceiver nor a suet pudding; she was a formidable intellectual, born to shine in literary and philosophical discussion. Every great man in London, from Charles Dickens to Alfred Tennyson, sat around the teacups with her; a favored few listened sympathetically to her tales of woe and discontent...
Tips & Onions. To gather all its detailed information, Michelin relies on 92 regional representatives, tire-company employees all over France, and five full-time inspectors who spend their days and nights eating their way through the nation. Michelin inspectors never reveal their identity until the meal is over, and woe to the chef who is having an off day. From their voluminous reports, the home office keeps up to date, even to knowing that a certain chef in a little Normandy inn may be slipping because of troubles at home...
...Ismay-"Operations in which large numbers of men may lose their lives ought not to be described by code-words which imply a boastful and overconfident sentiment, such as 'Triumphant,' or, conversely, which are calculated to invest the plan with an air of despondency, such as 'Woe-betide,' 'Massacre,' 'Jumble' ... After all, the world is wide, and intelligent thought will readily supply an unlimited number of well-sounding names which ... do not enable some widow or mother to say that her son was killed in an operation called 'Bunnyhug...
...those London cocktail parties where everybody showed up with a hangover. The host, a distinguished novelist named Graham Greene,* roamed restlessly about his book-cluttered flat, listening to the mock-tragic tales of woe. Not to be outdone, the host confessed that he too was feeling like hell: he had been up all night drinking with his priest...