Word: woeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that alarm is nothing compared to the mental warning bell that went off after a woeful 2-1 Harvard loss...
...shots I would have made in my sleep I missed in the first half," sophomore Mike Gilmore (17 points, five rebounds) said. Gilmore shot a woeful one-for-seven in the first half...
Union used to be a joke--after all, it had compiled a woeful total of six wins in its first two years as a Division-I team...
...great irony of colonialism is that occupied lands often tell their woeful stories to the world in the language of alien rulers. This is nowhere more true than in the realms of the former British empire. Artists know that ancestral tongues or patois, even when they survive, could not reach a wide audience, while English puts them on a world stage. When John Millington Synge wanted to portray hatred of England's dominance in his native Ireland, he nonetheless wrote in English rather than Gaelic. When Mustapha Matura depicts his native Trinidad, he uses English -- indeed, he has lived...
...After a woeful power-play at 7:58, Harvard took advantage of its next man-up opportunity at 12:16, pelting Fiander in the closing seconds, as Captain Ted Drury, junior Chris Baird and junior Brian Farrell all unloaded hard shots. Fiander turned them all aside...