Word: woes
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CORNELL at PENN: Big Red coach Bob Blackman loves to sing his song of woe, then change his tune every week after a "surprise" win. This year the woe may be real with 33 lettermen gone, including almost every starter. Still, you can't tell me there isn't enough left to beat Penn, a team that topped only Columbia a year ago. Sorry Bob, it just won't work. CORNELL 20, PENN...
From George Washington on, those elected to the nation's highest office found themselves variously confounded by conflicting demands. They were supposed to be of the people but a little above them, too; woe to them if they did not run the Executive Branch efficiently, and equal woe if they failed at improvident spellbinding. Small talk seems to have flummoxed some of them. During the 1824 campaign, John Quincy Adams was approached by an old farmer, who said: "My wife, when she was a gal, lived in your father's family; you were then a little...
...Motown Woe...
...confused and lonely hearted, to Idaho Woe and Been Around and Mr. Also, they are wise and steady friends. To 130 million readers from Tokyo to Tucson, they are the witty and no-nonsense "Dear Abby" and "Ann Landers." In real life, they are twin sisters, Esther Pauline ("Eppie") Lederer (alias Ann Landers) and Pauline Esther ("Popo") Phillips (Abigail Van Buren), together the most widely syndicated columnists in the world, with upwards of 1,000 newspapers apiece. Says Loyola (Chicago) University Psychologist Eugene Kennedy: "Their columns are the national mailbag. The advice they give is fundamental common sense...
This assessment is not a judgment of her personality but of the role she has chosen to play. She is a fiercely dedicated and protective wife. Woe unto anyone whom she catches speaking unfavorably about Ronald Reagan. When Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver attacked the then-Governor of California, Nancy was immediately on the phone. "But, honey," Reagan said, after listening for a while, "I can't have him arrested just because he said those things." Acknowledges Reagan now: "She bleeds pretty good...