Word: woes
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Thus some students have found that while they applied to an undersubscribed Radcliffe House first choice, they were put in enormously oversubscribed Lowell House which was their third or fourth choice. Freshmen who were rejected from Eliot House and put in Mather House find themselves trading tales of woe with Eliot House applicants assigned to Mather House...
...Madame, are much consolation: "Marriage is a compromise." "A lot of time, a lot of pain, went into learning very little." The possible reactions to much of what is going on in the world today are a rather hopeless twosome: "We ought to do something about it" or "Oh Woe, Alas...
...Woe, Alas? Not exactly, for wisdom comes from loss. Pretty women, as everyone knows, are given special treatment. But beauty is a costly possession, and women pay for it by pretending that the skin is the self, and carrying on a discreet, lifelong flirtation with the world that encourages in them longer than usual the human delusion that the face you put on is really...
When the Tories came to power in 1970, the club found itself with 35 M.P.s-double its previous parliamentary representation-plus 33 peers in the House of Lords. Nonetheless the Monday Club has become Wednesday's child, full of woe. The size of the Conservative victory meant that moderate Tories no longer needed to woo clubbers for support. More recently the Monday Club has been torn by internal rebellion; there is some evidence that members of Britain's small, neo-fascist National Front are moving to take over some of the club's branches...
...even the most casual reader of Rooseveltiana knows, Eleanor's life was full of woe. Her beloved father, a problem drinker, died young, and early death claimed her mother and brother as well. She grew up shy and lonely, self-conscious about her plain looks...