Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...style, was served up last week for good Japanese reasons: 1) propaganda to India (from Singapore, Indian Agitator Subhas Chandra Bose broadcast: "Now that India's neighbor Burma has achieved its freedom, nothing on earth can keep the Indians enslaved any longer"); 2) there is severe economic distress in Burma and the Japs would rather see public wrath directed at Ba Maw than at themselves; 3) the Japs expect an Allied offensive into Burma, think the political gesture toward the Burmese is timely...
...William was plainly trying to spare the rod. He continued: "In England it would correspond to the 1906-09 report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law and Relief of Distress. But, of course, it is only natural that you in America would be 30 years late in discovering the spread of unemployment and poverty because your standard of living is so much better than ours. The NRPB report simply shows that unemployment and poverty exist...
They pass into the Common and then sit down to wait. After not very long, they are walking up a grassy hill hanging onto a sailor's arm. The surprise and distress which this one revelation brought to me cannot easily be conveyed. To say the least, I was struck with abhorrence...
...commentators have the personal get-up-&-go which led Lewis to crash the sacrosanct Capitol press galleries in 1939. Thanks to him, radio reporters are now regularly present in Congress. Accusations that his reporting is "destructive" distress him. He says he is just using radio to cut red tape. When he is in town, his plush office at WOL is a loud and tangy chatterbox. The clatter-chatter was finally too much for the female occupant of the adjoining office. While the commentator was on tour, arrangements were rushed to equip his office with a soundproof door...
...best to ease him out, made one of the bitterest speeches ever heard on the Senate floor. Milligan got the reappointment anyway, promptly sent Pendergast to prison for evading income taxes on some of his slush money. Truman shouted: "Purely political. . . . I won't desert a ship in distress...