Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queen and her ministers could not ignore a challenge so dashing and so well known. After they caught Campion they imprisoned and racked him, then sat him on a stool at four "conferences." Campion held his own, in distress chiefly because his replies were not being taken down in full. "I wish to God I had a notary," he said. On Dec.1,1581, he was dragged through the rain to Tyburn gallows and faced death gently with a,prayer for the Queen...
...must produce, and let nothing stand in the way of production. We must feed the hungry and care for those in distress. If private enterprise cannot do this we must have public enterprise. . . . We must see the fight through to the finish, and show the world that we believe all men are created equal...
...mere housewife can do, I guess, is put out [a] cry of distress and have an oil furnace in the new house she hopes to build, instead of the coal stoker she originally planned. I don't intend to struggle with John L. Lewis every spring-for spring comes once a year...
...economy is being gradually stagnated. As the days progress, tonnage will go off the railroads, factories will close and distress will come to the American people...
...this week-the sixth week of the strike-John L. had reached the crucial point in his strategy. His threat was coming true. Industrial stagnation had begun. Distress came in a rush...