Word: distraughtly
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...date of Hiatt's sense of reckoning. True to the wordplay of the title, the album is a bluesy, almost all-acoustic affair - like something Taj Mahal might have made if he had a more melancholy streak - that ponders various crises: the narrator's desertion by his wife, so distraught that she leaves her daughter behind, in the title track; the weary resignation of a couple at the end of their rope in "What Do We Do Now," told in the attenuated vocabulary of those who have already talked something to death; the unvarnished testimonial of the old-timey blues...
...White House was never again captured, although there were close calls. During the Civil War, Union forces occasionally billeted in the East Room and the grounds of the White House. Life inside the building in those years was often chaotic, with job seekers, war contractors and distraught parents allowed to crowd in to seek time with Lincoln. The public could assemble too beneath the north portico whenever startling war news, good or bad, arrived. Lincoln often used a short, candle-lighted passageway from the upstairs quarters to a window over the entrance. There he would stand and talk...
...distraught parents visit St. Mary's Hospital in Manchester, England, almost every day, crying over and comforting a baby they fear God plans to take from them. Or is it two babies? Their child, born on Aug. 8, is conjoined twins--two lives joined at a circular pelvis. One twin, called Mary in court papers to protect the family's anonymity, has a flaccid, useless heart, no working lungs and an underdeveloped brain. She can suck, kick and open one eye but may not have consciousness. Her bodymate Jodie is "bright, alert, sparkling...very much a 'with-it' sort...
...unwed mothers outside Seoul across from 25 unwed mothers, some who had just given up their babies, some soon to. They looked into their unmet children's futures. We looked into our unmet birth mothers' pasts. A 17-year-old Korean-American girl--roughly the same age as the distraught girls in front of her--rose and choked out, "I know it's hard for you now, but I want you to know I love my American family...
...named for them. For the last 10 years, the president has recounted the same story to incoming first-year students in his opening address, describing the plight of a young bookworm, from Kansas or some other such backwater, who suddenly discovers a love for the Palladians while at Harvard. Distraught parents can scarcely understand young Junior's not-so-lucrative interest, but nonetheless this avocation is destined to become a vocation. Well, as it happens, not too, too many people around here really have been chasing after the Palladians. Rudy is getting madder and madder, trying to devise new methods...