Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harsh Baltic elements took an unexpected hand in the plot. Gale winds of up to 85 m.p.h. slammed towering combers against the sides of the sub, cascading tons of water on deck. The 50-man Soviet crew quickly decided it could stand no more. Red flares signaling distress whooshed up from the conning tower, and the radio put out the call "Mayday, Mayday." Under the sea's battering, the submarine developed a 17° list to starboard. The vessel's large electrical storage batteries threatened to leak acid that could fill the hull with poisonous chlorine...
Researchers must, however, report to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on what animals were used in the course of a year, and whether any animals were subjected to pain or distress. In 1980, the USDA reports, out of 1.6 million animals used in experimentation, more than 120,000 experienced pain or distress...
...diehards and the secret distress of detractors, Some Girls resurrected the band in 1978 after a fairly successful double album of live cuts had been released the year before. Some Girls had musical variety: borderline disco, r and b, rock and roll, tongue-in-cheek country. It was clever and spontaneous and well-received. But when Emotional Rescue followed a couple of years later, the disturbing message first heard on Exile was still there: maybe there really wasn't anything left for the Stones except frustration and guitarist's elbow...
Social scientists have long recognized that few traumas are as hard to bear as the death of a spouse. For the survivor, the intense distress can lead to serious psychological and physical ailments. Now, a new study of survivors shows that widowhood dramatically raises the chances of death for some survivors -men. The death of a husband has almost no effect on women's mortality rates...
...asked if anybody had any better ideas, and nobody did. In the end, everyone agreed we should keep on doing exactly what we're doing." Few Europeans, however, read the short-term and qualified approval all that sweepingly. European finance ministers privately expressed genuine fear of severe economic distress in their nations if the Reagan policies do not produce results before it is too late. Thus however encouraging in its spirit, Montebello looked like only the promising opening of a long dialogue among contentious friends...