Word: distress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crook Into Cop. Inside this velvet-lined grab bag there was something for almost everyone. For the neutralist powers of Asia, there was the firm reference to "early withdrawal of foreign troops"-a phrase which, to their distress, was missing from the Norwegian resolution. In the renewal of the Arab League pledges of noninterference in one another's affairs, there was a sop to U.S. and British concern over indirect aggression...
...show in Christ Church brought its own difficulties. The auditorium closed at 5 p.m. while the group prepared for the opening. Most of the theatre people seemed to be used to working at night, through th early hours of the morning, and the Church's hours caused some distress. Many of those working on the show were involved during the day with school work and jobs, so the few hours left in the evening were hurried and hectic. One can imagine the embarrassment caused by the minister appearing quietly in the auditorium while the irritated stage crew wrestled with...
...down models to give customers the impression of lower prices. One reason for the lack of price cuts is that manufacturers' labor costs have continued to rise while productivity has lagged behind. Another reason is that manufacturers have held down inventories so well that there has been little "distress selling" to bring pressure for cuts...
...checks." All through the late 1860s, he had the money, shelled out as much as $241,000 at a session to get the legislation he and his associates wanted. Eventually, the Swepson-Littlefield interests floated their own bonds for railroad lines they never built. They snapped up land at distress sales, bought state-owned cotton at 33?. which they quickly sold on the open market at 47?. Littlefield branched out into Florida and became president of the Jacksonville, Pensacola & Mobile Railroad...
...chance accepting a questionable favor? "Only demagogues," snaps Muñoz, "cannot afford to be seen anywhere except drinking bad gin with a man who has no shoes on." He has a mighty temper and lusty tastes. There is only one liquor he is cool toward -much to the distress of the promoters of Puerto Rico's excellent rums. After chain-smoking most of his life, he gave it up nine years...