Word: woefulness
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...blame for the Congress' indifferent record at Easter time? Some of the responsibility rested with the Administration, whose requests to Congress had been sweeping and vast-and unspecific. The White House, dallying and fumbling, had supplied little guidance. On Capitol Hill itself there was a woeful lack of leadership. Majority Leader Ernest McFarland, though patient and well-liked, had failed to hold the Senate's nose to the grindstone. Tom Connally, usually impatient and arrogant, could think of nothing better to do in the field of foreign policy than let the opposition talk itself...
Princeton Coach Charley Caldwell suggested yesterday that Harvard "sell itself to athletes" in order to improve the "woeful Crimson football situation...
...Nevis cyclotron is not only the most powerful; it even sounds different. Like most big atomic machines, it is guarded by Geiger counters to measure its radioactivity. Counters often ring a bell at intervals. An imaginative young scientist fixed the ones at Nevis to make a woeful sound like a baby chick that has lost its mother...
...weeks as a woman outcast, Reporter Browning had skillfully told her phony, woeful tale to priest, to minister, in Salvation Army hostels and gospel missions, and had found charity everywhere. She had narrowly escaped being firmly placed in a home for unmarried mothers, was compelled to accept money from strangers (she sent it all back), had 19 offers of free lodging with meals, and scores of offers of help in finding work...
...piece of bread And hit Abijah on the head, The wrathful freshman, in a trice, Sent back another bigger slice, Which, being buttered pretty well, Made greasy work wher'er it fell, And thus arose a fearful battle, The coffee-cups and saucers rattle, The bread-bowls fly at woeful rate, And break full many a learned pate...