Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following the distress signals, Italian naval planes, flying across the mistral, found the Orazio, gave her position to several nearby vessels. But it was late afternoon before the first reached her. By that time she was a furnace in the wind-passengers later swore that from the lifeboats they could see her ribs silhouetted and the sea boiling against her red-hot plates...
Convinced that the schools were really in distress, Governor Lehman and the Legislature agreed to provide full State aid for the coming year. But the schools were still far from port. Although they had cut expenses by some $6,900,000, there was still a $1,400,000 hole in their current year's budget which they did not know how to plug. Only thing that could keep their ship afloat, the School Board warned, was a deficiency appropriation...
...gold in British Guiana mine fields. Nowadays, he and Mrs. Brown live quietly on the island of Martha's Vineyard, where summer boarders and the radio provide the chief excitement. One night last winter, tuning around on his all-wave radio, Captain Brown picked up a sure-enough distress call from a tanker aground off Newport, called the U. S. Coast Guard, brought about the rescue...
...pressing problems. The first is the preservation of the constitutional liberties which their people have gained through the years of struggle, the second is the problem of adjusting their economic life to the difficulties of the machine age. . . ." Although rival groups seek power and influence by exploiting economic distress, attempting to undermine democracy, main problem in combating them is to avoid taking action "which would undermine the fundamental structure of constitutional liberty itself...
...soft drinks, at 56 still rises at 5 each morning. His proudest boast is that one April day in 1936, when a tornado struck Gainesville, 400 of his cadets took charge of the town and, without food and in a driving rain, held on for eight hours, relieving distress, saving lives...