Word: distress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...renting an abandoned mill or warehouse on a highway and borrowing enough money to buy an inventory. And almost anyone did. At first, old-line department stores jeered at the discounters. They pointed out that the discounters' stores were messy, that the goods they sold were often distress merchandise, and that the clerks were few and were usually order takers who did not know their stock. Department stores offered credit, wider selection, home delivery and more amenities. All true; but many department stores, and their help, had become indifferent in service and set in their ways. Besides, it turned...
McBride concluded that pigs have a vocabulary of at least ten easily distinguishable squeals and grunts, most of which express mood or emotion. A high-pitched squeal means distress or pain. A lower-pitched squeal, very common with pigs, says "I'm hungry." A short squeal like a dog's yelp means "I give up." Grunts are more subtle, says McBride...
Both, before they met, had considered entering a religious order. A devout, devoted Queen who is two years Baudouin's senior, gentle, sweet-faced Fabiola plunged immediately into a punishing round of social work until the strain caused her miscarriage last year. To their delight, and courtiers' distress, even on state occasions Baudouin and Fabiola cannot help holding hands. Though she looks every inch a Queen in a Balenciaga gown and crown jewels, her people liked her best when she donned her nurse's uniform to race to Belgium's floods and recent mine disasters. Today...
Ellie (in great distress): I dont's know what to bee-YOW vooma VOOMA. Please, may I speak to HONK whirr leave me. I can't bear...
When the rebellion began. Moslem nationalists were convinced that Algeria was a land of untold riches that France was picking clean. To their distress, many now see that France was sitting atop a poor country, not a rich...