Word: distress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then read to his Russian listeners Fast's lengthy statement on why he was turning his back, not on the Russian people, but on their leaders and their form of government. "As I read it," he said, "the crowd hushed. Towards the end, however, when Fast told of his distress that mail from Soviet admirers was no longer reaching him, there was an outburst of indignation. Two young Muscovites said they had sent Fast a fan letter only recently. Obviously, the Soviet people are still writing to Fast, but their letters are being intercepted...
...been arrested by the police after some disorderly conduct. As he stood trial in City Judge Doyle's court, his eight-year-old daughter standing beside him began to cry, anguished by the spectacle of her father at bay. The man saw the child's distress, reached out one hand and smoothed down her blonde bangs, pulled out a handkerchief and began to mop her eyes. Suddenly a look of pain broke across his face. "I didn't go out there to cause any trouble," he blurted. He too burst into tears...
...rather amused at Jesuit Father Davis' "distress at what he feels is a Jewish tendency to put Jewish interests before those of the rest of society," incidents of which, he says, "puzzle and at times provoke Catholics" [Aug. 12]. This sell-righteousness does not become an official of a church that has a long record of looking out for its own interests first...
Although the Administration had worried through Congress a barely adequate $3,367,000,000 (about $500 million less than the Administration had originally requested) mutual-aid authorization bill, a whole new set of distress signals began flapping around the White House early in the week. In the legislative wonderland, "authorization" is a far cry from actual appropriations, and White House liaison men reported that a House appropriations subcommittee was about to slash foreign aid even below the authorization total. Ike was disturbed. "This is no lighthearted matter," he told associates. "The very integrity, the very safety of the U.S. rests...
...Distress Call. Snia Viscosa has been a one-man outfit almost since the day Marinotti appeared in Milan 28 years ago. Born on the Venetian plains, he had already won a reputation as a hustling textile salesman, first working for Italy's Cascagni Seta mills, where, at 23, he was manager of all the company's mills in Czarist Russia, later as boss of his own worldwide trade corporation. In 1929 Marinotti got a distress call from Societá Nazionale Industria Applicazione Viscosa, onetime shipping company turned textile manufacturer. Snia Viscosa, overcapitalized and overinflated at the 1929 crash...