Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writers that only the familiar makes good subject matter. This is something of an apology for the story's stark style, and it's certainly not a new idea. Aside from such personal irritations, however, there is an extremely compelling theme of little people trying to rise from their distress that the most unsociological person will not fail to see clearly, and admire...
...Three meeting, Joseph Clark Grew was Acting Secretary of State in Washington. He made the most of his newsmaking opportunity. He discussed the U.S. part in settling Yugoslavia's trouble (see above), restated U.S. policy on war crimes, explained how U.S. eagerness to relieve France's economic distress was blocked by the tragic necessities of military supply...
...liberated Netherlands too there was distress. Citizens were rationed to 1,040 calories of food daily, less than half enough. Schools were closed. Hospitals were critically short of personnel and medicines. To Queen Wilhelmina's Government in London a Dutch underground leader reported: Communism had gained no converts in Holland but old conservative parties were being radicalized. From Dutchmen in Holland, Dutchmen in exile did not know what to expect...
Army & Navy personnel officers frequently boast about how much their enlisted men shell out for warbonds. Last week an admiral (who declined to be named) threw some light on the services' sales methods. Said he: "There would be less financial distress among wives and families of enlisted men if the Bureaus of Supply & Accounts, and Personnel used a little more common sense about war bond drives among these lads...
Mule Sense. At first the mules brayed in distress when the caravan was attacked; amateur muleskinners hauled them away in all directions. The mules resisted loudly: they had been taught by U.S. cavalrymen to trot in a decorous file after a bell mare...