Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus it went until some 260 "farm" witnesses had been heard, each revealing some angle of the misery and distress of citizens of their incomparably prosperous country...
Several correspondents suggested that unless the Conservative Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin acts quickly to relieve miner distress, the result of Edward of Wales' tour may be a storm of indignation which will cost Mr. Baldwin the next election. Though the public has contributed $2,500,000 and Parliament has voted to double that sum (TIME, Jan. 7), the Conservative Government is still procrastinating so outrageously that last week Laborites in the House of Commons, forced from Lord Eustace Percy the admission that not a penny of the huge fund has as yet been spent...
...amended reducing the amount of salvage that may be claimed by masters of ships which answer another's SOS. Inspector Hoover pictured the reluctance of a captain in time of peril to incur the expense of salvage. "If the amount was reduced, the master of a ship in distress would not hesitate too long before asking for help...
...principal export, nay the mainstay of Ecuador's economic existence, is cacao (the seeds of which provide cocoa and chocolate), but lately this crop has declined, causing great economic distress. To speak plainly, Ecuador is the most insignificant and poorest of the South American republics. She is supreme only in her production of the finest toquilla-the straw from which so-called Panama hats are woven...
...Olvany's most telling argument was a quotation from famed Historian Charles A. Beard: "Tammany is our greatest social-service agency, and it holds its power because it understands sympathetically the needs and trials of the masses. Its leaders visit those who are sick and in distress. . . . Tammany asks no questions and fills out no pink and green cards. Its office hours are not from ten to four, but continuous. . . . Its virtue is its humanity...