Word: woes
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...looms over them like a giant, forcing Phil to spend the night in the dreaded "cubby hole" under the stairs. The guilt that Craig feels over not protecting his brother becomes even more acute when a neighborhood boy who baby-sits them molests both boys. Childhood seems made of woe for the sensitive boy who suffers impoverished discomforts at home and ridicule at school. Craig finds escape in dreams, drawing, and his Christian belief. All of this carries through as Craig falls into adolescence. "This world is not my home; I'm only passing through," thinks the teenaged Craig while...
...actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, both moderates, have talked about running against Davis. Schwarzenegger isn't discussing politics while he promotes Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which opens this week, but, says Riordan, "Davis' big worry is that it will be me or Arnold. I hope it's Arnold." Woe to the man who would try to steal his Hummer. --By Terry McCarthy
This is a chronic Democratic woe: lousy bumper stickers. The Republicans can trot out three two-word killers--STRONG DEFENSE, LOWER TAXES AND TRADITIONAL VALUES. Democrats are more likely to offer impenetrable position papers. In 1992, Clinton chose to fight the Republicans on their own ground. He used three one-word slogans and won with "Opportunity, Responsibility and Community." The moderate Democratic Leadership Council cleverly revised the slogan at its annual meeting last summer: "Opportunity, Responsibility and Security." Several of the Democratic contenders have fixed on security as a theme this year. Not just national security but homeland security, financial...
Even 65 million years after the disastrous end of the Mesozoic era, there’s still no end of woe for dinosaurs. Even the Science Core, Science B-57, “Dinosaurs and Their Relatives,” couldn’t avoid another sudden calamity when a replicated tyrannosaurus rex skull ordered for lab was damaged in transport last week...
...shore, All stain'd with carnage, red with human gore; Shrouded in blood they now appear'd to stand, And pointed to their agonizing land; I saw the thousands, thousands, thousands slain, On their primeval, their parental plain; Their lacerated limbs, with chains opprest, Their minds, alas! with mighty woes distrest! Each body mangled, scourged in every part, While sighs and groans burst from each swelling heart! I saw in tides of tears their sorrows flow, And still new anguish added to their woe...