Word: distresse
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Last-Minute Qualm. Misgivings or no, the attack was on. One day last week Stevenson charged that the President, amid the economic distress, was claiming credit "for every good thing in the country from the American flag to fried chicken"-including the New Deal and Fair Deal; this reminded Stevenson of how the Russians had claimed credit for inventing the telephone and TV. Eisenhower's cabinet were "men of wealth and position," and the President himself, Stevenson added in the distributed text, "has not known or cared what was going on." At this point in the tactic, however, Stevenson...
...wipe out the remaining pockets of distress and economic discrimination in the United States...
...distress...
...royal advisers acknowledged that some changes in the royal palace were "possible." Presumably on their way out were Baron van Heeckeren van Molecaten, the Queen's private secretary, and his mother, grand mistress at court. Both friends of the faith healer, they won ascendancy at court (to the distress of Bernhard's friends and of many Dutch politicos) after the faith healer moved into the palace, hoping to effect a cure by prayer on nine-year-old Princess Marijke, who was born nearly blind...
...Webster makes two painful tries: "(a) A form of consciousness characterized by desire of escape or avoidance, any varying from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture. (b) An affliction or feeling proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or bodily injury." Dorland's American Illustrated Medical Dictionary gives up without even a moan: "Distress or suffering...