Word: distress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face looks heavenward in horror. The jaw sags until the huge cigar droops from his lower lip like a wet sheet hanging from a tenement window. He leans back across the grand piano in his office. His voice becomes shrill and frightened. This is Zanuck impersonating a virgin in distress...
...novelty for contestants in the National Spelling Bee to be in distress, but in the 23rd annual Scripps-Howard contest in Washington, D.C. last week even the judges had a bad time...
...were to appear in a hellish Malayan prison camp such as Panchor. The thought has never for a moment occurred to Chaplain Choyce. He is known to the officers and men as "the Padre with-the Modern Approach." .Bustling with professional cheerfulness, he has a pat formula for every distress and a manly chin-up sermon for every misery, but he is about as spiritual as an auctioneer. And then he meets Andros, a soldier whose inability, or unwillingness, to identify himself is taken by the British medics behind the barbed wire as a sign of malingering. Chaplain Choyce discovers...
...biggest job on the best daily newspaper in the world. But the august, 99-year-old New York Times itself will not consider the occasion an item that fits its famed formula, "All the news that's fit to print." This will not in the least surprise or distress Publisher Sulzberger, who facetiously confided to a friend last week: "They're not sure that I've made good...
...agreed to sell the copies for $300 apiece, and, at Whitaker's suggestion, Boy Scouts the country over enthusiastically began collecting funds, buying statues and putting them up. Sixty-four statues were already gleaming in the sun by the time the National Sculpture Society began emitting bleats of distress last week...