Word: woes
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...popular vote. Republican Senator Charles Percy turned back a challenge from Roman Pucinski as expected with 60 per cent of the vote. In perhaps GOP governor Richard Ogilvie and Democratic challenger Daniel Walker were locked in a tight race that would probably not be decided until the woe hours of the morning...
...minute walk are gone or fading fast. The prospect of a concrete lower to hardly cheering and this year Radcliffe switched over to Harvard means to the disappointment of all. It used to be that one could walk up to the 'Cliffe to get a food meal woe and then. No more. The cleaning people are complaining about the new arrangement for Radcliffe, too; apparently Harvard was scandalously slow to provide them with supplies this year...
...thing I am very certain: Americans will never tolerate such interference in our election process. Woe to the politician who seeks to win by becoming a "Manchurian Candidate...
...continues: "Literature is the living memory of a nation. It preserves and kindles within itself the flame of a country's spent history, in a form that is safe from distortion and slander. In this way, literature, together with language, protects the soul of a nation. But woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation of 'freedom to publish'; it is the stopping of the heart of a nation, a laceration of its memory." When writers, as in Russia, are "condemned to create in silence...
...Later he moved up to a $217 model purchased with money he earned working as a pew duster in an Episcopal church on Saturday nights. At 14 he began writing songs modeled after Hank Williams' why-don't-you-listen-while-I-tell-you-this-tale-of-woe style. At 24 he walked into one of the coffeehouses in Chicago's Old Town district and sang in public for the first time. "People were very responsive," he recalls. "If they hadn't been, I'd of never done it again...