Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wipe out the remaining pockets of distress and economic discrimination in the United States...
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...royal advisers acknowledged that some changes in the royal palace were "possible." Presumably on their way out were Baron van Heeckeren van Molecaten, the Queen's private secretary, and his mother, grand mistress at court. Both friends of the faith healer, they won ascendancy at court (to the distress of Bernhard's friends and of many Dutch politicos) after the faith healer moved into the palace, hoping to effect a cure by prayer on nine-year-old Princess Marijke, who was born nearly blind...
...Webster makes two painful tries: "(a) A form of consciousness characterized by desire of escape or avoidance, any varying from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture. (b) An affliction or feeling proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or bodily injury." Dorland's American Illustrated Medical Dictionary gives up without even a moan: "Distress or suffering...
...fellow surgeons refuse to criticize Major General Leonard Heaton who operated on the President. On Ike's medical future, professionals vary in their prognostications, but think that the President is in danger of more trouble. The trouble, if it comes at all, could range from occasional minor intestinal distress, through recurrent disabling attacks of diarrhea, low fever and malaise, to a need for more surgery. The course of ileitis is so variable that doctors cannot dogmatize about the outcome of an individual case. Explains Dr. Everett Duane Kiefer of Boston's famed Lahey Clinic: "There are few diseases...