Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talisman in time of Russia's distress, Leningrad stood firm...
Luckily it is rarely fatal, but after a week or so of acute distress a patient is usually left shaky and washed out for several weeks. The disease chiefly attacks adolescents and young adults, often in groups such as schools, colleges, Army posts. Peak of the pneumonitis season seems to be in the late fall and winter, whereas most other respiratory diseases reach their peaks in February and March...
...Distress. Berlin and Rome, having buttered up Serrano as their pride & joy, had no ready explanations for his new role as whipping boy. In a sense his dismissal was a diplomatic slap, but it meant no sudden switchover in Franco's generally pro-Axis policy...
...cargo ship's skipper ordered Sparks to relay the S. O. S. Neither the captain, the first officer nor Sparks saw anything suspicious about the signal reporting a ship in distress some 30 miles distant in the South Atlantic. Soon night closed down over the unruffled sea and the third officer spotted lights about three miles away. Swiftly the lights grew closer to starboard. At three-quarters of a mile the approaching ship opened fire. Shells from 8-in. guns tore into the cargo vessel, quickly putting its deck guns out of action. Torpedoes from the deck tubes...
...trap, baited with cynical confidence that a U.S. merchant ship would observe the law of the sea and relay a distress signal, thereby revealing her position. As the lifeboats were lowered, machine-gun fire forced the occupants to leap into the sea and swim for a raft. Later the captain said he was sure the raider had launched at least two motorboats because the attack came from three sides. Within half an hour the cargo ship went down. Out of the darkness the raider loomed closer to the spot...