Word: woes
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...lanky, long-necked clergyman emerges from the deanery of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, shuts behind him the learning of 40 centuries, gazes wearily down a hill black with automotive traffic, whispers: "Woe, woe is this perverse generation . . . A generation which travels 60 miles an hour must be five times as civilized as one which travels only twelve...
Your March 15 article, "Woe Throughout the Nomes," reads: "As it was in the beginning, piercing lamentations arose last week from Wallagrass, Maine to San Ysidro, Calif." Being a "Mainiac" for some 23 years, your reference to Wallagrass has me stumped. Maine has its Waldo, its Winnegance, and its Wiscasset; but where, pray tell, is its Wallagrass...
...Philippines' President Ramon Magsaysay, in office only two weeks, soon regretted his glowing invitation to Filipinos, extended in his inaugural speech, to telegraph complaints directly to the President. From all over the islands, thousands of long wires of woe crackled into Manila. Hastily, Magsaysay trimmed down his generosity: henceforth, though they may still be sent free, telegrams must wail in 50 words or less...
...last week, there got orders to settle the strike that had cut back production at the Euskalduna works, one of his city's biggest steel plants (TIME, Dec.14). Though newspapers printed no word of the strike and mail from Bilbao was interrupted, the news of Bilbao's woe was spreading by word of mouth. Madrid wanted a settlement, quickly and in silence, before other Spanish workers decided to join...
...tune of $2,200,000 for items acquired but not yet paid for. One day last month Gilcrease went to Claremore to visit the Will Rogers Memorial, dropped into a curio shop run by Claremore's Mayor Jim Hammett. Gilcrease told Hammett his tale of financial woe. Hammett saw a chance to get the Gilcrease collection for Claremore, helped get together a group of influential Oklahomans, headed by Governor Johnston Murray, in a nonprofit corporation to take over the collection as a public trust...