Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time when breathing space was more needed, a blessed convalescence, a truce of God and man." But, he said, "this is a time when hatred is rife in the world, when many branches of the human family, victors or vanquished, innocent or guilty, are plunged in bewilderment, distress or ruin. The world is very ill. . . . Mankind cannot in its present plight bear new shocks without descending to altogether cruder and primordial forms...
...unoccupied farrowing pen. Most pig births are normal, but sometimes a little pig needs to be helped into the hungry world. Sometimes one is born in a covering caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer's ear than the ethereal fluting of the prairie lark is a sow's "pumping," the regular ugh, ugh, ugh, which means that the litter has discovered how to suckle...
...Navy Day speech. Truman said: "We hope for the peaceful settlement of the differences which have arisen between colonial peoples and colonial sovereigns in all areas. The roots of democracy, however, will not draw much nourishment in any nation from a soil of poverty and economic distress...
...backstage biography, My Father Who Is on Earth (Putnam; $3.50), the great man sometimes looks more like a ham actor in search of a role. Says Son John Lloyd Wright: "I can think of him . . . as Don Quixote, to whom every windmill was a woman in distress; as Apis, who was conceived by a bolt of lightning; as Ferdinand, who loved the aroma of flowers; as Reynard, whose affection at times was no match for his appetite...
...Distress Sale. In Nice, France, where condemned men pay for their traditional, hearty last supper, condemned but broke Collaborationist Eugéne de Balinfly raised cash for his by having four teeth yanked, selling the gold crowns...