Word: distress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kept the Hanoi equivalent of a salon. "If you are unjust," the young girl told her fiercely, "I will ignore you." When Beautiful Spring was 16, she met Ngo Dinh Nhu, chief archivist at the Indo-China Library and an admirer of her mother's. To Beautiful Spring's distress, Mother forced her to address herself to Nhu as "your little niece." Nhu lent his little niece books, helped her with her Latin lessons. Constantly in her mother's shadow, Mme. Nhu wanted to marry and get out of her house. Her mother's list of selected young men held...
Walter Ulbricht's government has reacted to the declaration with growing distress. Last week a deputy chairman of his state council charged that the declaration was prepared in West Berlin for "cold war purposes." But the Evangelical churches clearly intend to live by these principles. At a recent administrative session, the churchmen elected as their chairman and deputy chairman bishops who are known to favor a policy of noncooperation with the state. In retaliation, the government formally barred leaders of the Evangelical churches in West Germany from entering East Germany, thereby severing the already frail links between the west...
...mind from sex and security. Displaying something like his old form in the House of Commons, he delivered an eloquent speech on prospects for disarmament and a summit conference that was received respect fully even by the Opposition. But Macmillan's eloquence could not diminish Tory distress over the three separate scandals that plagued his government...
...popular villains were aliens, and there was a widespread demand for their deportation. But as late as October 1919, Palmer said: "We cannot be less willing now than we have always been that the oppressed of every clime shall find here a refuge from disorder and distress...
...question is, should a gentleman lick the wasp-stung buttock of a lady in distress? Please Don't Walk Around in the Nudel fails to provide an adequate answer, but it does pose the problem in a delightful fashion...