Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most severe; many a small town has lost its most promising Methodist in those ordeals--and for one reason or another, Anglicans defect at the rate of one out of every four. Freud's Moses and Monotheism or The Future of an Illusion must provoke nearly equal distress: one atheist passes up all alternatives listed on the questionnaire and writes, "God is man's interpretation of what dissatisfies him.... A rejection of God comes through progress towards understanding one's emotional condition." Another similarly explains, "psychological insight: God is a product of man; the most valuable part of religion...
...available for his use 21 days after they close their Boston run. The extra-price stuff (like "80 Days" or "Gigi") does not hit the square until after a subsequent regular-price Boston run. Then, after the usual 21-days blackout, it slithers into the U.T., much to the distress of those who have seen it in Boston for more cash...
...around is not a prospect that pleases," declared the Times of Indonesia. In Rangoon the Nation bluntly declared that this was "no time for neutrality," urged the Burmese government to reconsider "seriously" its foreign policy. Even the high panjandrum of Asian neutralism, India's Nehru, showed signs of distress-and the Indian public showed far more. "Mr. Nehru's India," declared London's Economist, "may be emerging from the age of innocence. In later years, the Republic of India may look back upon this month as its moment of truth...
...week. She seemed to understand all this when mummy and daddy explained it. She was even allowed to take her favorite soft toy, unsanitary though it was. Surgery went well, and to doctors and nurses Laura seemed fine. Even her anxious mother thought her occasional crying and distress were normal and unavoidable...
...keener observer: a hidden camera rigged by Psychoanalyst James Robertson. The camera's eye saw that the emotional damage to Laura had been far worse than doctors or parents suspected. Even at 2½ she could put on a brave-front part of the time, to hide deep distress. But in 24 hours she was beginning to withdraw from solicitous nurses. Soon she withdrew from her mother, resenting her visits because she could not understand why they had to end. Back home, Laura was markedly anxious and irritable for weeks; six months later, mention of the hospital still revived...