Word: distraughtly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfinished letter on Mrs. Hallock's desk. In short order the case bounced onto front pages around the U.S. Alarmed at the potential damage to its booming tourism, Acapulco called in the Federal Security Police. As day after day passed with no word, Mrs. Hallock's distraught sister, Mrs. Edith Hoffman, arrived from New York. She promptly revealed that the missing couple's good friend in Acapulco had been Luis Fenton...
Kadar's very pliability has made him a failure as a puppet. Where a strong, though hated, leader might have pulled the remnants of the party and police state apparatus together and reimposed it on a defeated and distraught people, Kadar's weak half-measures (e.g., his arrest and then release of workers' council representatives) have merely served to strengthen the people's stand against him. The result is that half the collective farms remain in the hands of the peasants, coal miners still refuse to work, and much of the country's industry...
...markable discipline and calm. To this rule there was one notable exception: Gamal Abdel Nasser. From the moment of the first attack, the aggressive, self-confident man who had staked Egypt's life on the premise that Britain and France would never use force was visibly shocked and distraught...
Last week, as their story exploded in the press, newsmen tracked down the couple on holiday at a hotel in Montreux, Switzerland, and the idyl throbbed in the headlines. Sobbing and distraught, Kathleen returned to London in the company of her lawyer. "He has the face of a saint and is the only man I'll ever love," she said of Philip. "We are ready to forgive and forget. We still love you dearly," said Eileen Ross in a message to her husband. Thus doubly beloved, the Rev. Mr. Ross-Davies prudently lingered in Europe, while in England...
...Nashua of his hemisphere. The horse experiences two traumatic experiences with fire, the first in a nearby forest and the second in his Tokyo stable. These incidents of couse affect his racing proficiency, and in the end the boy uses his harmonica in an attempt to calm the distraught animal in preparation for the "big race...