Word: distress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turkey, drifting dangerously close to the reefs of bankruptcy, has been beaming a steady distress call to Washington. The Turkish appeal: a $300 million loan, without strings. The U.S. has repeatedly refused to come through, insists that first the government of Premier Adnan Menderes must 1) take reefs in the inflationary Turkish economy and 2) agree to conditions for putting further U.S. aid to lasting use instead of frittering it away...
...Fund for the Republic, has led a group of attorneys in a study of individual cases of employees whose loyalty has been called into question. A preliminary report of the Yarmolinsky group shows that in many cases improper and lengthy procedures have caused undue mental and emotional distress to many workers unfairly accused of disloyalty. One case involves a Post Office employee who was suspended without pay for "hanging Communist art in his home." Investigation showed that the individual was guilty of appreciating the work of Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, and others...
...Since that day three years ago the farm situation has steadily worsened under an Administration that embraces flexible price supports while maintaining distressing rigidity of mind . . . The current farm distress is dangerous to our whole economy in an age of ever-closer economic interdependencies. If it continues, it must inevitably affect the prosperity so arduously fostered through 20 years of Democratic Government...
...partner, Silversmith Edward C. Moore. Thus, when Manhattan Real Estate Operator Irving Maidman and Bulova Watch Co. talked of taking over Tiffany's and replacing its genteel tradition with the code of the hard sell (TIME, Aug. 8), Tiffany's Fifth Avenue neighbors shuddered with well-bred distress...
...something like a big blister-bulging from the heart muscle. Drs. William Likoff and Charles P. Bailey of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital report what is believed to be the first successful operation to remove one. A man of 56, formerly bedridden, has been, able to climb stairs without distress since the operation 15 months...