Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unemployment has grown less of late. The New Dealers should be the first to admit that. They maintain that government spending produced a wave of recovery, and that the Roosevelt recession came only when pump-priming was halted. For them to deny that public money has helped correct economic distress would be pointless self-castigation. Sullivan and Krock have only misunderstood, or misinterpreted, the New Deal protest at Miss Thompson's figures...
...three triplets of dots-is a new signal, invented and used by the Allies since the beginning of World War II. It serves a double purpose: warns that the sending vessel may soon be in distress, calls up Allied war vessels for a possible kill. Landlubbers' translation: Stand by-Submarine Sighted. After she had given her alarm last week, El Ciervo did not see the potential enemy again...
Long familiar to landlubbers has been the distress signal SOS. Contrary to landlubber tradition, S 0 S is not an abbreviation-either for "Save Our Souls" or "Save Our Ship." It is simply one of the clearest, simplest signals that could be devised from the Morse Code: Dot-dot-dot dash-dash-dash...
Expressing distress at the type of concentration program that young men are now getting in college," James McC. Landis Dean of the Law School, advocated yesterday the broadcast possible college education as preparation for the Law School...
...great extent this will be reckoned as an extenuating circumstance when history's judgment is passed. But that judgment can only read: " 'Sweden failed. She failed democracy's case; she failed a brother in the hour of distress. She failed her historic obligations and failed her own future.' " Even more outspoken was a pamphlet written and published by an Army colonel and a Stockholm professor of history: "Fools are those believing a free Sweden may exist as the neighbor of a Finland trampled down by Bolshevism. No doubt exists that Russia is aiming farther than...