Word: distressed
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...Moment of Distress...
...restraint. The Democratic majority allowed the language of the charges against Nixon to be softened or limited in order to appeal to impeachment-leaning Republicans. The articles on Cambodia and Nixon's finances gave defecting Republicans and Southern Democrats a chance to alleviate some of their home-district distress by casting a vote of two for the President...
...Choice. Careering about Vienna, Holmes and his cadre become involved with that cornerstone of Victoriana, the Amnesiac Lady in Distress, played by the breathtaking Norma Osborne Slater. When she is kidnaped by Warmonger Baron Von Leinsdorf-who plans to blow up Europe-Holmes has no choice. With his faithful M.D.s, Watson and Freud, the sleuth engages in a transcontinental chase scene, holding the fate of Western civilization in the calm of his hand...
Having been urged by the high bench to establish their own community standards, many states have been rewriting their obscenity laws-often to the distress of serious publishers and film makers. Last week Massachusetts enacted a law that will allow district attorneys to order arrests on pornography charges without a prior court ruling on whether the material involved was in fact obscene. Publishing executives worry that the mere threat of such arbitrary arrests will have a "chilling effect" on the industry...
When a physician advises the use of alcohol for its tranquilizing, sedative or antidepressive action for a patient undergoing unusual emotional distress, he or she is prescribing a dangerous drug, addictive in 5% to 10% of users. None of the normal controls on the use of a dangerous drug (e.g., medical supervision, control of dosage, need for periodic review and represcription, warnings of hazards and side effects) are present. The patient does not look upon alcohol as a drug and may be unaware of increasing dependence...