Word: distress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water supply is (if it runs out, it runs out; your ultimate endurance is not ensured by rationing it); rest in the shade through the heat of the day, travel only by night; keep your clothes on to minimize loss of body moisture through sweating; devise some sort of distress signal to attract attention from...
Double Dip. Samantha's distress kept pace with her role; her shadows darkened as the heroine wasted away. Verisimilitude was everything. Wyler even insisted that the two nude scenes be played entirely in the buff, and one of them, a bathtub scene, was shot and reshot for five hours. For conventraised Samantha, it was this very embarrassment that gave veracity to her fumbling, desperate efforts to seduce her captor-which was precisely the effect Wyler wanted. "Looking back," Samantha admits, "I must say it made sense; it was valid...
...managed to make it unsteadily through the-first four courses, but felt, as dessert was carried on, that if he consumed a single morsel more he would surely lose his entire dinner. He was in a quandry. But meanwhile the chief, a kindly old fellow, had observed Thun's distress and, knowing this particular bear 's fur glasse to be an unusually strong preparation, he leaned over and chanted in Thun...
...skirts fly. See the gallant gentlemen help the poor damsels in distress regain control of their runaway steeds. Come to the annual Harvard-Wellesley Bike Race, taking off from the Soldiers Field gate at 2 p.m. Sunday. The prize: no, not the fox's tail, but a Peugeot racing bicycle, compliments of the Bicycle Exchange...
Real Reasons. Though old-fashioned in many ways, Britain's steel industry is hardly in dire distress; this year's output is likely to reach a record 26-plus million tons. Moreover, like much of the rest of Britain's highly mixed economy, steel is already a rigidly regulated enterprise, with severe government supervision of prices and investment policy. Steel Federation President E. T. Judge noted: "The White Paper does not make any specific charge of failure against the industry-which it certainly would have done had the evidence existed...