Word: distresse
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...blow hove to, he slogged ahead. He was running short of rations, had nothing but wet clothes and knew he was pitting his strength against time. He never spotted another ship. When he finally made a landfall on New Zealand's west coast near Karamea, he hoisted distress signals but no one saw them. A fortnight ago he finally found himself off Westport harbor; in desperation he prepared to tackle its rough entrance bar as soon as he had light...
...waters outside the harbor of Rangoon, loaded ships lay at anchor. Out at sea other Rangoon-bound vessels got orders to alter course. Along Strand Road, Rangoon's wharfside thoroughfare, government officials, merchants and shipping agents found themselves confronted everywhere by the cause of the distress. In warehouses, on docks, even in the port health station, thousands of bags of cement were piled high, crowding out all else and paralyzing the port. And more cement...
Bucking the Revolution. For the most part, farmers who reaped the high profits of the war years, paying off their debts and piling up capital assets, have been able to stand the postwar adjustment without real distress. The man hardest hit by the slump is the "new" farmer, who moved onto the farm after World War II when original costs were high. Such a farmer is Melvin Anderson, 40, who rents and farms 230 acres owned by a prosperous big farmer in Henry County, Ill., the "hog capital of the country...
Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler was flapping distress flags from every halyard. "There is no use kidding ourselves," said Butler. "The Democratic Party is confronted with a financial crisis." Butler was imparting the bad news to the Democratic National Committee, which met in Washington's Statler Hotel and rounded out its week with a poorly attended (2,500 guests) $100-a-plate dinner at the Washington Armory...
...face of this far-reaching crisis, Paul Butler is not likely to strike his distress flags soon. The Democratic Party's big contributors may yet come through-but they can hardly be expected to bet heavily on a horse that is running backward, especially when they don't yet know the name of the horse...