Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anastasia, Actress Bergman is a princess in distress. Nobody believes she is who she says she is, and even she herself, benumbed by the horrors of the revolution and her escape, is inclined to doubt her identity. The doubt is soon complicated by the fact that she is induced to impersonate herself by the wicked General Bounine, a White Russian adventurer who would like to lay hands on the "Czar's fortune" deposited in the Bank of England. The spectator is thus caught in a dramatic paradox (virtue can triumph only if vice does) that keeps his mind engaged...
Like Editor Amberg, some news executives now even run names of parents of juvenile criminals, plus their occupations and marital status, to illustrate their belief that teen-age crime is not necessarily a product of broken homes or economic distress but reflects a widespread breakdown of moral values...
...carried out at a great altitude." If the world by now was left a little breathless and confused, the distractions were working well. But not all the confusion was planned. Before the week ended, it was clear that the Kremlin was suffering from divided counsels, hot tempers and international distress...
There are other ways of bypassing the code, which stipulates that a broadcaster "should not accept advertising material which describes or dramatizes distress," e.g., commercials showing muscles throbbing with pain. Also questionable is the indiscriminate use of such words as "safe," "without risk" and "harmless." Broad casters also often resort to pseudo-pharmaceutical names or impressive "scientific" terms that the average viewer may not understand ("If you're tired from lack of thiamin and riboflavin . . ."). Others relate doctors and celebrities to a product by innuendo...
Last-Minute Qualm. Misgivings or no, the attack was on. One day last week Stevenson charged that the President, amid the economic distress, was claiming credit "for every good thing in the country from the American flag to fried chicken"-including the New Deal and Fair Deal; this reminded Stevenson of how the Russians had claimed credit for inventing the telephone and TV. Eisenhower's cabinet were "men of wealth and position," and the President himself, Stevenson added in the distributed text, "has not known or cared what was going on." At this point in the tactic, however, Stevenson...