Word: distress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...else that communism be met with strength. He is convinced that a strong France is vital to the interests of the free world. But he also knows that French foreign policy cannot be a brittle shell over a rotting core. For communism can breed in the rubble of economic distress as easily as it can overrun an unarmed Germany. The French premier has already begun to boost a standard of living that has revived far too slowly since the war. With a coldly realistic appraisal, he has trimmed France's foreign commitments to take some of the strain...
...unpopularity with the voters. Too unimaginative, tough and cold even for Maine, honest Burton Cross ran an ad ministration that was distinguished, as one observer put it, "for an everlasting aptitude for ineptitude." Democrats made the most of his tactlessness, e.g., although he had conscientiously investigated the severe economic distress in Maine's coastal area, he had remarked that the people would have to "lift themselves by their bootstraps." After naming his campaign manager to Maine's Supreme Judicial Court, Cross curtly informed newsmen that the governor was "not required to make any explanation" of court selections...
...Russians. At an old coal mine, which had been confiscated from the British (the fact was not mentioned), a foreman had been tried a few days before by a people's court convened on the spot, and summarily shot for inefficiency and sabotage. This, at least, seemed to distress some of the visitors...
...their distress quickly faded before what they regarded as an extraordinary note: "No flies." Said Franklin: "The most remarkable development in the world in the past 50 years." The British delegates, who, like all Socialists, love tidy planning, learned that cards are posted in each house, on which the resident must note the number of flies, rats and cockroaches killed. "The householder's rent is raised if insects are found on the premises," explained Franklin. He added, with the expansive generalization that characterized the delegates' utterances: "I don't think the peasants are very interested in political...
...moaned. "It's my stomach. Get a doctor." "But you're on in ten minutes," pleaded the manager. "I'll never make it," cried Sidney. Then the manager noticed a poster, understood the source of the jazzman's distress: Bechet's name was printed in small type, way down on the list of performers. Quickly he explained that it was all a mistake, and promised to get Sidney better billing. Bechet brightened. "Will I get a private dressing room, too?" "Absolument!" agreed the manager hurriedly. "Filled with flowers...