Word: woes
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...swamped him. Calhoun not only has everything under control but at his fingertips. He keeps his own index of Navy tankers, knows every moment where each one is. No man dares tell him a job has been done if it hasn't-Calhoun knows in an instant, and woe betide the offender (although the Admiral may ask him to lunch half an hour later...
Immediately, that fact was encouraging. But in the long view it might be the portent of disaster. If, with the troops moved from China, the Jap took India, shutting off U.S. aid, China's glory might become China's woe, might upset all the United Nations' long-range plans...
...Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord...
...heavy, wheeled stretcher from its intricate moorings on the floor of the ambulance, and in twisting it up two flights of tortuously curved Victorian steps. After they accomplished the ticklish task of lifting the old lady to the stretcher and carrying her down, she added much to their woe, when nearing the hospital, by insisting that they all return immediately to rescue a pan of stewing prunes from her stove...
Telling worried Freshmen how to study, take notes, keep healthy and be successful Harvard men, the latest pamphlet to come from the Bureau of Supervisors advises '46 on all problems of collegiate woe...