Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kenneth S. Magoon, ex-commodore of the Cottage Park Yacht Club, now a TR lieutenant (j.g.). Lieut. Magoon's flotilla has grown from 100 to 600 volunteers. Most of Magoon's flotilla patrol the Massachusetts beaches, stepping thoughtfully around lovers, eyes beamed seaward for flares, boats in distress, enemy submarines. Chunky, energetic Lieut. Magoon resents the intrusion of his State St. importing business on the long hours he devotes...
...Playwright Otto Zoff (John Day; $3). It is written from the relief workers' point of view, with an enthusiastic foreword by Dorothy Canfield Fisher; its greatest lack is the statistics that would give substance to its disconnected case histories and its well-intentioned but sketchy stories of distress among the 100,000,000 children of the Axis-occupied countries. Most shocking question it raises: When Europe's uprooted children grow up, what will they do to a world which has done such things to them...
...next decades will be a time of distress and of gnashing of teeth. We shall live in the hollow of the historial wave . . . [but] the day is not far when the present interregnum will end and a new horizontal ferment will arise ... an irresistible global mood, a spiritual springtide like early Christianity or the Renaissance. It will probably mark the end of our historical era, the period which began with Galileo, Newton and Columbus, the age of scientific formulation ... of the ascendance of reason over spirit...
Your article captioned issue of "Sousa with a Floy Floy" in the Sept. 6 issue of TIME has been bothering me ever since I read it, and my distress was fortified by the letters commenting on the article which you published in TIME'S Sept. 27 issue. I decided (in the interests of Lux et Veritas) to do a bit of personal investigation. . . . Circumstances favored me in this quest because...
...fate of Italy . . . may serve as a lesson to us all, in the hours of gravest crisis and most dire distress, never to forsake the commandment of national honor but to stand loyally by our allies and loyally by our hearts-full of faith, to do what duty demands...