Word: woeful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shifting Middle. Though the final communiqué was the more moderate for Nehru's efforts, it was a woeful performance for the band of statesmen who had swept into Belgrade to render self-proclaimed moral guidance in the cold war. President Dorticós of Cuba badgered the conference into deploring the U.S. base at Guantanamo, but no mention was made of the Soviet garrisons in Hungary, Poland and East Germany, or of Red China's occupation of Tibet. There was much space devoted to the sins of colonialism, but no hint of reproach for the brutal neocolonialism...
Along with about a million American self-employed salesmen, I vehemently object to Mr. Kennedy's woeful State of the Union message...
...quantity of material, and in separating the living wit from the dead cats flung in literary battles long ago. The parody buff will find few representative favorites missing here (J. C. Squire is one). Macdonald was uplifted by his rediscovery of The Stuffed Owl (title taken from a wonderfully woeful Wordsworth poem of the same name), an Anthology of Bad Verse published in 1930. He was dispirited by the six-volume collection of parody published in the 1880s, which contained 86 versions of Gray's Elegy, 60 versions of Poe's The Raven, and 21 of The Charge...
...answer to Reader Ethel R. Mirick's question of May 16 [about whether it is bigotry to fear the Roman Catholic hierarchy as much as the Kremlin]: not bigotry, Mrs. Mirick, just woeful-or willful-ignorance...
Back to the Village. Any possible speedup at Aswan will be attractive to Nasser, who is pledged "to double the national income [currently a woeful $150 per capita] in ten years." Nasser, the audacious international adventurer, has at last begun looking to his country's internal needs. During a flurry of Cabinet meetings last June and July, the President ordered a rethinking of policies in the light of U.A.R. failures to extend its leadership in the Arab world-not only in Iraq, but also in Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, the Sudan, Libya. One result of this rethinking was Nasser...