Word: distraughtly
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With the young Tiger squad looking distraught, Princeton called time out; and when play resumed, both the crowd and the Harvard team had lost the spirit...
...with reluctance because of suspicions that they might not otherwise remain loyal and turn over arms to the rebels. In any case, Somoza needed the extra help. His regular guard forces were said to be spread so thin that some were taking Dexedrine to stay awake and were so distraught that they shot civilians and even unarmed Red Cross teams...
...researchers to wonder whether there may be a genetic factor in the kind of depression that sometimes leads to suicide. "My hypothesis is that there is one," says Puig-Antich. Yet like other scientists, he concedes that the tendency of depression to run in families may only mean that distraught parents often pass on their troubles to their children. Whatever the cause of the suicidal drive, experts agree that kids can be as vulnerable as adults. Says Carlson: "If an adult has the bad feeling that his life is not worth living, and he has the means...
...emotions were so high that even Brautbar's female lab technicians burst into tears when he announced that two babies were indeed in the wrong homes. The scientific Solomon patiently explained the tests to the mothers with color charts, but they remained distraught. Said one: "I know you are logically right, but if I talk to you from the bottom of my heart, it's difficult for me to accept what you say." Added the mother of the twins: "It sounds so easy going through a change, but only a mother knows the meaning of such a thing...
Fisk spat a chaw of tobacco in front of home plate and trotted up to Bobby. Al Jackson came out of the dugout, looking more than a bit distraught...