Word: woes
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...from A to Z, while ignoring the place where all flights begin and end-the airport. Ideally, an airport is a conduit, a place to leave; in reality, it has become a gigantic waiting room, where exasperations multiply like chewing-gum wrappers and cigarette butts on the floor. One woe is the need for a great trek, first as much as three-quarters of a mile from parking lot to terminal, then on to the departure gate through hundreds of yards of echoing, aseptic corridors. Another is the need to stand in line: passengers must queue up to check...
...SDSers, both culprits and liberal white knights depending on the observer's leanings, are no longer alone. They have spawned new groups which have served, if anything, to complicate a distressing situation, fraught with real woe...
...first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden. - John Milton, Paradise Lost...
...government officials are also having second thoughts about the $1 billion they are spending in chunks to get the first SST prototypes in the air. And all these fiscal arguments ignore a more basic objection: the right of Americans to live in their already-polluted cities without the additional woe of needless sonic booms...
...Harvard's woe, stalwarts like goalie Richie Locksley say that Brown is not as formidable as in former years. Locksley will have a long afternoon to find...