Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line about its ordeal, no well-informed Bostonian would have been surprised to see the paper collapse or pass suddenly into new hands. The daily was in an almost comic mess−creditors swarming, funds attached, payroll delayed, newsprint delivered only for hard cash, and negotiations begun for a distress sale...
Foreign Communists everywhere, in their hour of distress, are crying for a "true Marxist analysis" of First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev's sensational speech (TIME, June 11) at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party. Last week they got the beginnings of one from Marxist Pietro Nenni, leader of the Italian Red Socialist Party. It struck with shattering force into the foundations of the "back to Lenin" movement which Khrushchev, Tito et al. are promoting as a substitute for Stalinism...
...range foreign aid, but of all the other economic techniques and forces that the world's leading capitalist-enterprise republic has to offer? Without a real world economic plan, and faced by a fast-moving Communist economic offensive, the Administration had dissipated its foreign-aid advantage, to the distress of staunch foreign-aid friends in both parties-and to the delight of ancient isolationist enemies in both parties...
...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...
...Angels do far more than answer distress signals. Seamen are prepared for confirmation, for instance, while on voyage-one lesson in one port, the next in another...