Word: distraughtly
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...innocence, the White House was grinding to a halt so that aides could go out and find lawyers to help sort through their garbage and assemble all the documents that will float past the grand jury and inevitable congressional committees for months to come. A high-ranking Clinton official, distraught at seeing his name smeared, found himself reassuring his children that he is not going to jail. "Don't worry, Daddy," said one child. "We still love...
...reinforce that message to his rink general, he jumped off the Harvard bench to console Israel as he trudged to the Harvard bench. The message for his distraught sophomore: Hold your head up, Izzy...
People who don't like Orange Juice--or The Orange Juice, as Edwyn Collins called his band during its declining years--generally compare these fey Glaswegians to the Smiths. (Glaswegians, by the way, were and are unpredictable people from Glasgow, Scotland. The Smiths, similarly, were distraught people from Manchester, England.) These stolid naysayers aren't entirely wrong: Johnny Marr may have picked up the soulful, chiming guitar sound of the first Smiths records in part from the soulful, chiming sound perfected by James Kirk, the Orange Juice guitarist whose (real) name may or may not have inspired the Wedding Present...
...prosecution claims that in an interview Boy B quoted Boy A as having said at the time, "Let's get him lost outside, so when he goes into the road he'll get knocked over." According to at least 27 witnesses, the two schoolboy truants dragged the now distraught child along 2 1/2 miles of streets to a railway siding. In the intervening two hours, five passersby stopped the threesome but were persuaded that the littlest boy was lost and being taken to the police station or was being looked after in some...
...this day, the spotlight on Graham is so bright that spiritual gestures are taken as political statements. "I was distraught and offended when he spent the night in the White House before Bush launched Desert Storm," says Alan Neely, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. "I saw that as Graham giving his sanction for what was about to take place. I don't think that's the role of the Christian minister...