Word: woes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exam horror stories are nothing new; one Illinois exam official recalls a fellow who failed 13 times before conceding defeat ("I think he now holds some kind of job with the state"). But as the tales of woe rise with the flunk rates, state examiners are taking heat from charges that the bar is scheming to limit the new lawyers admitted to practice...
...Odysseus (Church), he whom Homer called "the man of many devices," thinks up the ruse of the Trojan horse, Troy falls. In Trojan Women by Euripides, the women are to be parceled out among the victors. Queen Hecuba (Eliza Ward) leads the women in a keening catalogue of I woe: she has lost her husband Priam, her son Hector, and will eventually lose all of her children...
...released. Asked Khomeini: "Do you know that, with his economic blockade, Mr. Carter intends to let 35 million people die of starvation? Does the Pope know about all this and yet condemn us? Or is it the case that he is misinformed? If the Pope is informed, then woe be to us. If he is not informed, woe be to the Vatican...