Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bobbysoxers, who have long distressed their parents, began to distress the medical profession last week...
...dryads have died from the trees and the naiads from the pools. Man seeks escape from pressures of another kind-the weight of desiccating factualism and the steel girders of civilization which he has built around him to shut out the night and the enemy, nature. Then, in his distress, the sophisticated fairy tale is born...
Mused Hess in his Nürnberg cell: "The decision . . . was without doubt the hardest I ever made. It was rendered easier, however, when I visualized the endless rows of children's coffins in both Germany and England, with mothers in dire distress following behind, and similar rows of mothers killed by bombs, with crying children following. I assume many people will interpret this as misplaced sentimentalism...
Skipper McVay was asleep in his sea cabin 20 feet from the bridge and wearing only his pajama tops when two torpedoes* struck the cruiser's starboard side, forward, and touched off a magazine. He ordered the navigator to send out a distress report, with the ship's position, then ran back to his cabin for his clothes...
Married. Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, fiftyish flapper with an apparently perpetual patent of nubility; and Anthony Easton, fortyish, wealthy, British-born inventor (automatic radio distress signal); she for the fifth time (and last, she said), he for the second; in Manhattan...