Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...central front, based below Voronezh and aimed roughly at the Germans' key point of Kharkov, the Russians launched another new attack. The General's diagnosis was indeed correct. From that area no reserves could be safely moved -and none could be added, because other fronts were in distress. Yet here was potentially the greatest threat of all to the integrity of the German front. The one way the Red Army can decisively smash the German position in Russia is to crash through the great lateral Smolensk-Kursk-Kharkov-Crimea railway system into relatively ill-defended positions behind...
...ennoble, invigorate or inspire their listeners (as for example in the opening bars of the Star-Spangled Banner) they depend heavily on consonances. An upsetting virus in music is dissonance, a combination of sounds full of sonorous tension which may produce anything from vague impatience to acute aural distress. When composers wish to disturb their listeners, make them weep, sigh or foam at the mouth, they do it with dissonances...
...presently there were signs that the fox was in distress. Allied planes pounded him. Rommel began to stumble and duck...
...Germans took over the Italian air fleet of 3,000 bombers and fighters and demanded control of the island of Pantelleria, Italian naval base in the Mediterranean. Mussolini was either too ill (of ulcers or mental distress) or too busy to attend the reception for Pierre Laval in Germany (see p. 23). More likely he was too busy, for he still behaved like an aged errand,boy. He shook up his Party directorate and was reported to have fired General Vittorio Ambrosio, Army Chief of Staff, and General Ettore Bastico, Marshal of Italy and onetime Governor of Libya, for "unprincipled...
...country demanded Government action to get wheat and rice to the starving. Snapped one Delhi daily: "Profiteers, speculators, hoarders and the rest of the parasites are fattening on the vitals of the masses. The Government has so far done precious little in terms of action to relieve their distress...