Word: woes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...concluded Professor Hooton, "no matter which type they are--whether them stem from the Norsemen, Vikings, Danes or from the Stone Agers--they're Irishmen. And woe be to the man who goes there and calls them anything else...
...veterans (some with as many as 15 different "cover" names) fire Communism into their minds. For two hours each evening, Vopo graduates of a special Politkultur school in Berlin indoctrinate the men in the history of the Russian Communist Party, the German workers' movement, the current "peace" campaign. Woe to the Vopo who does not learn his lesson-he may draw up to six weeks' confinement to barracks...
...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...