Word: distress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About the question with which your Feb. 4 Zen article ended:* I would bat my eyelids three times fast, three slow, and three times fast-the international distress signal (SOS). Then, when the friend had pulled me up, I would let him feel the back of my hand...
...revelation of a family's sins and strength. But here is no passionate view of the tragedy of life: easy optimism and shallow hope bubble up from every line, and the moral is simply a wisecrack-coated placebo that goes down without effort and is guaranteed against causing distress...
Premier Adnan Menderes expressed dismay, moved in tanks, and arrested 4,300 rioters. But many observers were convinced that someone had organized the riots, at least at the start-perhaps to divert attention from Turkey's growing economic distress. They pointed out that the rioters arrived in well-organized squads, equipped with crowbars and iron claws to pry open steel shop shutters, and that the government did not stop the riot until around midnight, when it had shown signs of becoming a general protest against the regime. Menderes suspended five newspapers for charging the government with failure to stop...
Deep concern for alumni distress...
...long, rectangular room that had once been a synagogue. Banked in two long tiers, the audience craned to watch the play as though peering from the ends of a bowling alley. But no one complained. Off-Broadway patrons have long since learned not to insist on comfortable surroundings. Any distress at last week's off-Broadway opening of August Strindberg's Easter was caused by the play and the production, not by the theater. To come off at all, the palely symbolic, poorly translated Easter-which creates joy out of the woe of a bedeviled Swedish family...