Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole of distress is always in use among men . . . only the distribution varies...
...three days I have been away on a special mission. I have seen with my own eyes the flood of haggard refugees... visions of old, things I thought I would never see again. Along these roads, of distress and misery I have seen dozens of cars with bullet holes and shattered windows, cars fired on by German planes. On Saturday night I talked with an old man and his ten year old son fleeing in a car from a town in the Ardennes. They had left by the roadside his wife and daughter who had been gunned through the roof...
...Fascism was born in Italy and in 1933 Nazism in Germany and the New Deal in the United States," Professor Gras said. "All arose out of distress caused by postwar reactions of business. All were based on private business and all provided work for the working class...
...North. Three years ago at a dinner in Lund, Sweden's Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson made this statement: "No earthly power can prevent Sweden's fighting on the side of a Denmark in distress." Long before Denmark came to distress last week it was plain that Sweden would not fight side by side with anybody against Germany, unless Germany forced her to do so. Sweden's cultural and economic ties with Germany are too strong for political differences to break, and she is bound even closer to Germany by her mortal dread of Russia...
Joan Fontaine has played bit parts in half-a-dozen pictures. She raised critics' eyebrows as Fred Astaire's leading lady (A Damsel in Distress), then made critics sit up with a small part in The Women...