Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single pregnant sentence of a communiqué issued by General Douglas MacArthur: "General MacArthur announced with great sorrow the death of Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr.. who so distinguished himself by scoring three direct hits on the Japanese capital battleship Haruna, leaving her in flames and in distress...
...wave. Board Chairman David Sarnoff's baronial voice came in from a liner in mid-Pacific. That moment reminded a few elders present of the night nearly 30 years ago when the same Sarnoff made his name-as the first operator to catch the primitive wireless signals and distress calls of another liner, the Titanic, as she went down...
From Rome last month New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews telephoned a long dispatch telling of drastic rationing, public and financial distress (TIME, Oct. 20). The dispatch was heavily censored in eight places. "In each case," said the Times next day. "the effect was unwittingly to emphasize the consternation caused by the Government's orders...
From Mr. Starnes's experiences, the scientists last week drew a practical conclusion: they suggested use of a small, accessory anti-spin parachute, to keep jumpers in a semierect position and minimize the distress of swirling...
...letter written in rhymed couplets, lambic tetrameter, accepted in poetry, referring to the scribes of Cambridge's Great Breakfast Table Daily as "Sir Galahads," and "Crimson Guardians of Dirty Damsels in Distress...