Word: distress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wounds & Distress. Vincent Sheean calls his book Orpheus at Eighty because it recounts Verdi's long life in a series of flashbacks showing the old composer looking back on the struggles and triumphs of his stupendous career. It is Sheean's best book since Personal History (1935), and if its prose could be rid of repetitions and the parentheses that break out half a dozen to the page, it would be the best introduction to Verdi and his music in the English language. Clearly a labor of love, it is at once a fine tribute and a history...
...works is a good starter, especially since many projects, such as highways, need doing anyway. Housing should be stimulated, and I have the pious but not unreasonable hope that we can get better houses. Urban renewal is a necessity, depression or no. Unemployment compensation should be increased to relieve distress...
...even as Coach Norm Shepard was transmitting distress signals to the Crimson relief-staff, Brigham began to find himself. Over the last five innings he pitched in masterful style, retiring all but one of the last 16 Brown batters...
...Brisbane on a Trans-Australia Airlines DC-3. At Brisbane they seemed cheerful, but when they got back home, they seemed slightly dazed and ignored tempting heaps of wriggling earthworms. Next day Pamela and Paul were back in form, but Paddy kept sticking his head underwater (a sign of distress). When he did not recover his spirits after two days. Fleay liberated him in a nearby river. "Paddy is so sensitive," explained Fleay. "that the trip to New York might easily kill him. We can't take risks like that...
...Argentina's Juan Domingo Peron, 62, having seized power in a 1943 military coup and put a stranglehold on the country that lasted until his wastrel ways brought economic distress and the opposition of the Roman Catholic Church, was dumped in a military uprising in September 1955, fled to Paraguay, then to Venezuela...