Word: distressed
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...drafted a letter explaining her situation--an appeal based on the fact that banks, deluged with loans going awry, would like to avoid foreclosure too, since it can cost tens of thousands of dollars in legal and rehab fees to repossess and sell a house. "We wrote a beautiful distress letter together," says Helbert. "We told her story." He was eventually able to talk the bank into reducing Bond's interest rate enough to save her $460 a month. So far, Helbert has helped keep about a third of his clients from losing their homes. (It probably doesn't hurt...
...reasons I like to publicize these facts is that I think we can prevent a lot of insomnia and distress just by telling people that short sleep is O.K. We've all been told you ought to sleep 8 hr., but there was never any evidence. A very common problem we see at sleep clinics is people who spend too long in bed. They think they should sleep 8 or 9 hr., so they spend [that amount of time] in bed, with the result that they have trouble falling asleep and wake up a lot during the night. Oddly enough...
...they had actually killed a member of the enemy in return. That imbalance between seeing the price of war up close and yet not feeling able to do much about it, the survey suggests, contributes to feelings of "intense fear, helplessness or horror" that plant the seeds of mental distress. "A friend was liquefied in the driver's position on a tank, and I saw everything," was a typical comment. Another: "A huge f______ bomb blew my friend's head off like 50 meters from me." Such indelible scenes - and wondering when and where the next one will happen...
...stop reading such filth. It was in the poorest of taste, and besides, she had not been able to read past the first line all morning. Her hands shook. She had been worrying the hem of her dress with what remained of her fingernails.The cause of her distress was no mystery. Each morning, for five days, she had found an excuse to visit the stables. And each morning, upon her arrival, she found her husband Frederick already there, discussing details of the upcoming harvest with The Stable Boy. The fact that she could not ascribe these coincidences to anything more...
...klaxons, and a lubricant foam that make it difficult for pirates to get their footing. For commercial shipping vessels and yachts operating in high-risk areas of Southeast Asia, the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, such products can mean the difference between smooth sailing and high-seas distress...