Word: distraughtly
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...Smith and Carlos' defense. "This is terrible, awful," said Highjumper Ed Caruthers, a Negro. "If Tommie and John have to go home," said Sprinter Ron Freeman, "I think there will be a lot of guys going home." "Some white ones too," added Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly. Most distraught by Smith and Carlos' suspension was their close friend and fellow militant Lee Evans, favorite to win last week's 400-meter dash at Mexico City. So shaken that he had to be helped onto a bus bound for the stadium from the Olympic Village, Evans recovered...
...that first awful morning last week, many Americans phoned relatives and friends; unable to speak the unspeakable, they just said, "Turn on the television." Thus began a four-day period in which TV and radio attempted to link a distraught country into a comprehending whole. They succeeded to a remarkable degree...
...Masters champion and may be worth as much as six figures. It also cost the 45-year-old Argentine, winner of more tournaments (upwards of 120) than any player in history, perhaps his last chance at the title that would crown his 30 years as a pro. Distraught as he was, Roberto took the loss with grace. "There is so much pressure," he said, "that I lose my brain. I congratulate Bob Goalby...
Scott's triumph is Visitor from Forest Hills, a zany wedding tableau in which an irate father, pressed past mind and pocketbook, cannot budge his distraught daughter out of a locked bathroom to the altar. He threatens, he cajoles, he implores. He nearly breaks his arm ramming the door. He rends his cutaway till it looks like sackcloth and he looks like ashes. Scott's countenance of epic frustration is phenomenally funny: a middle-aged Lear confronted with a thankless offspring. The evening's master treat, a carnival of sight-and-sound gags, this skit shows...
...attorney general found that "records" of the "cases" in Yoder's office were defective. Then it developed that Yoder, who has been 90% blind since child hood from a sand-lot baseball injury, had fabricated the story to drive home the dangers of LSD. Suspended from his post, "distraught and sick," Yoder had himself admitted to the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center...