Word: distress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...degree in bachelorhood, and while he appreciates spinsterish efficiency in the office, he turns for amour to a Greenwich Village post-adolescent (Brenda Vaccaro). This child wants to be a bride, but the dentist has lied to her that he has a wife and three children. In distress, the girl turns on the gas oven, and the suicide attempt, foiled by a friendly neighbor (Burt Brincker-hoff), convinces the dentist that he has been hit by a depth charge of love...
...using beautiful girls as station-to-station salesmen. "Pirate tankers"-large tanker trucks with two full-sized petrol pumps attached to the rear-now tour main roads to sell motorists cut-rate gas as they speed to work or sporting events. Roadside operators have also begun to buy "distress lots" of ungraded gas and sell it cheaply under such names as "Zoom" and "Whoosh." Some of it is only 60 octane, hardly enough to run a sewing machine-but the British motorist seems unable to resist a bargain...
...years after the stabbing, Gormley had a heart problem. They sent him to National Jewish Hospital in Denver, where "None may enter who can pay, none can pay who enter " By the time he got to Denver a month ago, Gormley could not climb a flight of stairs without distress, and he complained that his legs kept "going to sleep." His blood pressure had soared to 240/140. Doctors could feel no pulse in his legs. Chief Surgeon Melvin Newman and his assistants at N.J.H. figured that their patient was suffering from a partial obstruction of his descending aorta- scar tissue...
...committee acknowledged that "fiscal policies alone cannot prevent problems of local distress and disruption" that accompany shifts in arms spending. Changes in strategic planning, notably the switch from bombers to missiles, have already seriously hurt many industries and localities. Aircraft companies alone abolished nearly 50,000 jobs between 1962 and 1964, largely as a result of declining military demand. In small communities such as Port Clinton, Ohio (pop. 7,000), which stands to lose 2,000 jobs when the Erie Army Depot closes next year, such shifts can be ruinous. The committee therefore urged continued research and government help...
...temperature was 124°. With something like a genius for self-preservation, the Scotts drank the water from their car radiator, cut up blankets to make an S O S sign, dipped a tire in engine oil to serve as a signal fire, dismounted the car mirror to flash distress signals at passing planes, set out their hubcaps to catch the morning dew. They smeared lipstick on sunburn blisters and swollen lips, discovered some wax crayons and a pot of glue (made from milk products) among their luggage and fed them to the children. They cooled their faces with urine...