Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet nation are in solidarity with your struggle. Our point of view has been expressed with precision in the statement of Comrade L. Brezhnev at the Soviet Party's 26th Congress: "We shall not let socialist Poland be harmed, and we shall not abandon a fraternal country in distress...
...director has also listened to requests that UHS doctors treat gay students fairly. Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of UHS, spoke before a GSA meeting and has taken the lead in "sensitizing" physicians and psychiatrists. Nevertheless, most counselors at UHS still regard homosexuality as an indication of psychological distress and confusion that needs treatment, several gay students say. Schatz, whose medical record includes the fact that he is gay, is now tested for venereal disease whenever he goes to UHS. "When I had water on the knee, they tested me for VD. And when I broke...
Sutcliffe pleaded guilty to seven counts of attempted murder. Then, as his wife looked on with distress from a nearby seat and grim-faced relatives of the victims strained to hear, he was questioned about 13 counts of murder. Occasionally stumbling nervously over his words, he responded: "Not guilty to murder, but guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility." Thus in less than ten minutes, the chilling admission was heard in a tangled case of multiple murder that had claimed the lives of 13 Yorkshire and Lancashire women since 1975. Before the suspect was arrested last January, more...
...brought changes in the rituals of courtship. "Our typical affectionate consumer," he writes, "may now only whisper 'Your place or mine?' at a neighborhood dating bar." On the other hand, to perpetuate old-fashioned nights out, many damsels have come to the aid of gentlemen in financial distress. With women earning better salaries-sometimes more than their beaux-affirmative action demands Dutch treats at the very least, or even that the lady pull out her own American Express card ($6 in the late 1950s, now $35 annually...
...emotional distress of racism stifles the expression of all but the most sensitive of our artists. A direct confrontation with it leave mouths open in surprise; it is this shock that The Dark End of the Street portrays. The children of Cambridge must learn about this problem while they hang out. Here at Harvard, factions can confront each other on an intellectual basis, but on the Cambridge streets, people have to take sides. Dark End catches a group of these teenagers before they've learned to call each other "white bitch" and "nigger". When the film opens, Billy and Donna...