Word: distresse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opened April 1 in the Ole Miss Fine Arts Center. University Provost Charles Noyes removed it and four other paintings April 7 after receiving protests from the Mississippi Citizens Council and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Noyes said the painting's "slighting attitude toward the Confederate flag. . . gave distress and offense to many...
...begin to work exactly on schedule. But among some babies, particularly the premature, the lungs fail to expand properly. The chest sags, breathing is rapid and the child turns blue. Many deaths during the first week after birth are attributable to this condition, which doctors describe as the "respiratory distress syndrome...
...California pediatricians base their theory on a study of 129 infants. Among 41 whose umbilical cords were clamped before they took their second breath, 21 showed moderate to severe respiratory distress. In another group of 52 infants whose umbilicals had been clamped some time after the second breath, only six suffered the same symptoms. The condition of the infants who retained their umbilical cords longest was by far the best...
...abandoned child. To other viewers, it may explain why Judy Garland at 39 looked like a puffed-up Edith Piaf even though today, at 40, she looks like a million. Merciless photography highlights the bags under the eyes and the wringing hands that are the stigmata of Judy in distress. And Costume Designer Edith Head has not helped by giving her a red chiffon outfit that makes Garland look like somebody had tried to stuff eight great tomatoes into a little bitty gown...
...popularity and sound sense of the Tunku, whom Hong Kong Bureau Chief Charles Mohr describes as "one of the most relaxed, cheerful and modestly friendly cover subjects" he has ever interviewed. Describing one youthful escapade, Tunku commented, "I'm a lazy man." An aide watched in evident distress as Mohr wrote it down. Tunku merely chuckled: "It's too late now." A man so ready to concede his own mistakes, Reporter Mohr concluded, could count on justified pride in many achievements...