Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President also made it clear that the U.S. will do its utmost to feed Europe this winter. Said he: "Europe today is hungry. ... As the winter comes on, the distress will increase. Desperate men are liable to destroy . . . society to find in the wreckage some substitute for hope. Unless we do what we can to help, we may lose next winter what we won at such terrible cost last spring. . . . We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will...
...treacle for snaring readers discovered by Morrill Goddard, when Hearst lured him away from Pulitzer to found the Weekly, still works. A typical Goddard issue mixed a princess in distress, an actress "telling all," science's latest mechanical brain, and a snorting brontosaurus. Oldtime Goddard-admirers at the American Weekly say that his secret was his ability to believe anything that made a good story. It was a big help that most of the things he wanted to believe happened in remote villages in Siberia, China and the Balkans...
...Started. Air-sea rescue had its beginnings before the war, when float planes and flying boats sometimes landed on the water (if it were calm enough) to pick up training pilots or ship-based sailors in distress. The R.A.F. developed the practice of parachuting boats with reinforced bows to airmen who went down near the German-held coast of Europe...
...race became a roller-coaster scramble for the shelter of the Michigan shore. One yacht made it the hard way, running aground and breaking up. Another snapped her mainmast. Distress flares shot up. When noses were counted at dawn, 34 badly battered boats had made it back to Port Huron and points north. The other four had doggedly refused to give...
...terror, and insane distress...