Word: distraughtly
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Died. The Duke of Leinster, 83, premier peer of Ireland, who in his youth squandered his claim to one of Britain's largest fortunes, went bankrupt three times and lived out his last days, according to his fourth wife, "distraught, depressed and utterly penniless"; in a cramped two-room London apartment...
...vote. Even the profoundly cynical Schuyler is shocked by the brazenness of the theft. A further jolt awaits him. His daughter catches a millionaire husband-and there is evidence that she may have abetted his first wife's death to do it. "Why write any of this?" a distraught Schuyler asks near the end. "Answer: habit. To turn life to words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round. Words translate and transmute raw life, make bearable the unbearable." It is the last refuge of the artist...
Buchanan, Hamm, and King, when reached yesterday, said that they pleaded "guilty with an explanation" to Carchman. All three said there had been no premeditated plan to disrupt Hick's speech, but that her remarks made them "emotionally distraught...
...compulsive fever and spend all their money on a system of betting for which. Anna observed, he lacked the sang froid to execute successfully. But Anna saw that any attempt to condemn his mania would be useless--instead, she used it to her own advantage. Whenever he was tense, distraught, or ill-humored, she would encourage him to go to the casino. Inevitably he would return, unhappy with his losses--emotionally drained and much easier to deal with...
...from the S.L.A." "This," shouted one of them, "is Tania Hearst!" Unmistakably, the bank's automatic cameras filmed Patty Hearst brandishing a rifle at center stage in the bank lobby. Needlessly opening fire as they left the bank, the robbers fled with $10,960. Declared Patty's distraught father: "It's terrible! Sixty days ago, she was a lovely child. Now there's a picture of her in a bank with a gun in her hand...