Word: distress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past month ground fire has claimed an average of one U.S. plane a day over North Viet Nam. Last week five U.S. planes were downed. One of them was an Air Force Phantom. Set afire by flak, the Phantom's two-man crew sent out a distress signal, then radioed that they were going to try to reach the Gulf of Tonkin...
...Laugh at Distress." Responding to industry and congressional pressures to cool the fight, the Federal Reserve last week took a small step to make it unprofitable for commercial banks to pay high rates for certificates of deposit; it raised the reserves that banks must stash away against large time deposits from 4% to 5%. That only infuriated the board's critics. "An invisible crumb from the rich man's table," fumed Chairman Wright Patman of the House Banking Committee, "a horselaugh at people in distress...
Disease & Distress. The Austrian-born surgeon has operated on more than 500 patients for a variety of developmental defects and for conditions resulting from injuries. Some of his "before" photographs showed such startling malformations that they distressed even the military surgeons, but the "after" pictures showed astonishingly attractive repairs...
...condition that so aroused a President's concern has become the concern of an entire nation. Since his succession to the presidency, Lyndon Johnson has repeatedly limned the plight of those he has called, paraphrasing Disraeli, "that other nation within a nation-the poor-whose distress has not captured the conscience of America." Enthusiastically embracing the assault on poverty as "my kind of program," Johnson in his first State of the Union message pledged allegiance to those who "live on the outskirts of hope-some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many...
Shriver's OEO is a direct spiritual heir of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, which was organized in a period of national convulsion, when 15 million Americans were out of work and distress was the norm. Shriver's war, though conducted in an era of less obvious urgency, is actually more complex, more challenging and more ambitious. For, unlike Depression-era make-work programs, it aims not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty but also to cure its causes as well. "It will be impossible to end completely the culture of poverty until opportunity...