Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subdivided Patients. Dr. Hyman admits that, through specialization, medicine has become "disintegrated, dehumanized and depersonalized, to the distress of all concerned. . . . The individual patient has become divided and subdivided until each of his afflicted organs or systems may be under scrutiny by several technicians...
LONDON, February 2--A government leader told the British people tonight they raust work harder lest the British experience in socialism end in still greater distress and the conservative press speculated that conditions might arise in the next three months leading to the Africa government's resignation...
...first time during the great Gujerat floods. Everything broke down-transport, communications, all methods of distribution. The general Indian attitude used to be to regard such catastrophes as acts of God What little relief there was usually came from a British Government which took its good time to relieve distress. Patel initiated an unheard-of fund-raising drive for the relief of the flood victims. Supplies were moved into the flood areas by hundreds of volunteers wading through waist-deep water, carrying boxes and sacks on their heads. When lumber was required for constructing small bridges or building houses, Patel...
What Lenin Thought. In the long view, Russia's internal distress would not contribute to world amity. But in the immediate context of 1946, it had the effect of enforcing on the Russian leaders conformity with James F. Byrnes's painfully developed policy of resisting Russian expansion by "patience and firmness." Byrnes had ended the easy growth of Russia's foreign influence; before the Kremlin was ready for the really strenuous efforts required to buck the Byrnes line, it had to turn its attention homeward, where chubby Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Stalin's deputy in the party...
...early part of the campaign, when we had time to be concerned about individuals who had been killed, I was deeply distressed as we identified our dead preparatory to writing letters of condolence to the next of kin. When the Catholic chaplain found one of his men, he performed a little rite that demonstrated his concern to the bystanders. He did something that satisfied their need for a token signifying their common distress. But when I found a Protestant boy, I could only gently cover his form again, while the spectators stood by in a silence heavy with disappointment...