Word: distress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense to McCarthy's in the sense of a "higher law" is adverse to reality. In Mr. Oppenheimer you have a man continuing to associate with an individual who admittedly attempted to obtain from him our secrets for Russia, pleading political naivete in one breath and distress over international political repercussions of hydrogen development in the other. The committee that judged him was, to say the least, kind. No one, I think, would question his lack of enthusiasm by itself. To separate this issue is to me absurd. McCarthy's defense seems to me based directly...
When first this order was ordain'd, my lords, Knights of the garter were of noble birth, Valiant and virtuous, full of haughty courage, Such as were grown to credit by the wars ; Not fearing death, not shrinking for distress, But always resolute in most extremes...
Many men, though not as far left as Davis and socialist Allen Sweezey, were profoundly influenced by the depression, agreeing with lawer George Freudenthal that "the painfully vivid impressions which I received during this period of distress long continued to color my thinking...
...internal injury. Two days later, the colt galloped a couple of miles on the training track and snorted home with no sign of pain. Relieved, Winfrey began to step up the Dancer's training, but after a three-furlong breeze, the Big Grey came back in such distress that Owner Vanderbilt promptly withdrew him from this week's Suburban Handicap...
...that he heard for the first time of the Cohn-Schine matter. Although he could not say that Adams actually tried to use the Cohn-Schine report as a club, Dirksen said that he had a "vague" recollection of "hints" in that direction, all of which caused him much "distress of spirit...