Word: distress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after all, the collectors couldn't lose-even if there was not a Morgan or other rarity in the lot. All they had to do was turn their bag in to the nearest bank and get their handy paper money back. And this, to the Treasury's distress, was just what many...
What Brooks and company are really concerned about is the meet with Princeton, exactly a week away. Adding to the distress caused by Bill Chadsey's departure late in January was the news only this week that freestyler Bob Buster has decided to take a semester's leave...
Frantically, the two stations radioed the plane on Air Force frequencies and a Russian-monitored international distress band. Repeatedly, they called warnings that the T-39 was flying toward Communist territory. There was no reply...
...handled an occasional no-fee civil liberties case, and likes to say that he had "the largest nonpaying law practice in the U.S." But fact is, he made law pay well, earning as much as $200,000 a year. During the Depression of the '30s he invested in distress-priced stocks and real estate, and he prospered on the price recovery of the '40s. Finding that business was "less work and a lot more fun" than law, Lamb decided that "the way to build up a big fortune is to get control of companies." He now controls...
Frightening Racket. Commercial airports do not use the full Hardenberg system. When birds get thick along a runway, a Jeep broadcasting the appropriate distress calls drives out to clear the way so the jetliners can take off safely. There are no permanent loudspeakers to make a racket that scares away nervous passengers as well as birds...