Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yard squirrel came to the aid of three damsels in distress yesterday morning, when he ran up a laundry salesman's pant...
...coast with greater safety the British have anchored in deep, southeastern Channel waters a fleet of 50-foot "Air Sea Rescue" floats. These crewless havens for fliers who have plunged into the Channel are painted with the Red Cross, are available to Nazi as well as R.A.F. pilots in distress. At each end are ramps to make it easier for wounded men to climb aboard. Below decks are bunks, cookstoves, canned food, medicines, bandages, checkerboards, paper-covered libraries ranging from Shakespeare to whodunits, wireless telephones to call for aid, framed instructions on how to use the equipment. Says the placard...
...this time the reading and moviegoing public may well be getting a little callous, even a little bored, toward the harrowing pictures in the press, cinema, and slick-paper magazines of the distress caused by the war abroad. It was perhaps inevitable that this sort of immunity should set in, concerned as people are with "the larger issues" of the war effort itself. Nevertheless, if the net result of Harvard's recent British war-relief drive can be taken as typical, this tendency has reached appalling proportions. Three thousand five hundred undergraduates contributed a grand total of less than...
...received a New York Herald Tribune correspondent, bulky Hiram Blauvelt, and delivered himself of an interview. The Negus said he was grateful to the British for getting him back his throne; that he was grateful to the U.S. for the help sent in his country's time of distress; that he was glad Ethiopia was joining Britain and the U.S. as one of the world's free countries; that he was still a member of the American Museum of Natural History...
Great Britain's general fear and distress last week could be accurately gauged from Winston Churchill's words (see p. 34). In Germany, where dancing in the streets might have been expected, there was none -Nazi Police Chief Heinrich Himmler forbade any dancing anywhere, as is usual when the Nazi armies march. Despite blasting visits from the R.A.F., Germany was a quiet nation among the painful clamors that filled most of Europe. The German populace is a rigidly disciplined civilian army and its officers intend to keep it so until their country's final triumph is assured...