5.Tom had a bad day in school yesterday. He lost his key on the way home, then he fell down, and when he broke a shoe lace, that was the last straw and he began to cry.
6.Bill had a bad day in school yesterday. He lost his knife on the way home, then he fell down, and when he broke his shoe lace, that was the last straw and he began to cry.
7.Bill had a bad day in school yesterday. He lost his knife on the way home, then he fell down, and when he broke a shoe lace, that was the last straw and he began to cry.
8.That lesson can best be summarized by something Alisa and Karen told me when I was upset at the end of last semester and needed a shoulder to cry on.
9.a despairing view of the world situation; the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal; a desperate cry for help; helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether; her desperate screams.
