Word: distraughtly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operates a small airfield at back-country Buxton in Tasmania. Flying a mercy mission to rescue a child stricken with appendicitis, Pascoe crashes on a barren stretch of the Tasmanian coast. His skull is fractured, and he is tended only by the child's distraught mother, but his friends rally round. Chief of these is Ronnie Clarke, who volunteers to fly in a doctor through rough weather, over mountains and along the unmapped coast...
...Final Farce. Humbert marries Lolita's mother in order to be near the child. The mother, through Humbert's diaries, discovers his true predilections, runs distraught out of the house and is killed by a car. Now begins the prodigiously clumsy business of Humbert's trying to seduce his own stepdaughter-the fumbling, phony-paternal tenderness, the elaborate scheming, the agony of longing which Author Nabokov manages to make at once ludicrous, terrible and utterly convincing. But in the end, as Humbert tells the event, "it was she who seduced me . . . Modern coeducation, juvenile mores, the campfire...
...wake of a fresh wave of teenage violence, culminating in the suicide of a distraught Brooklyn junior high school principal (TIME, Feb. 10), the New York City Board of Education at last decided to crack down on the hoods in its classrooms. "To protect the innocent," it ruled last week, any pupil "charged with a violation of law involving violence or insubordination" would be suspended. The very next day the city's elementary, junior highs and vocational high schools suspended 544 troublemakers, and the academic high schools about 100 more...
...cattle industry has long looked for a way to soothe cattle on the way to market. Distraught cattle pick fights with their neighbors, fret off as much as 10% of their valuable weight during the journey, cost the industry up to $1 billion a year. Shot full of Jen-Sal's tranquilizer, a steer will put up with almost anything for as long as three days, will walk up the abattoir healthy and hefty...
...next scene, in a cosy flat rented for the occasion by the young man, is excellent. Bartle bumbles around in distraught anticipation with most persuasive touches of confusion, and Edith Iselin, as the Young Wife he has difficulty in seducing, treats a wifely, youthful, yet motherly role with great finesse and amusement. She radiates just as brightly in her next scene, at home with her pompously native husband, Richard Smithies. He often appears pleasantly outrageous, but he can also wallow in ugly pomp. He seems a bit closer to sixty years old than to forty. His next scene, with...