Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best of Ten. Off Plum Island, Skipper Du Mont got the kind of break no sailor can guess in advance: he came upon a boat in distress. The ketch Rolling Stone, out of Red Bank, N.J., was rolling in the easy swell, her ensign flying upside down from the mizzenmast. She had lost her rudder shaft. Under the rules, no matter how much time Dr. Du Mont lost going to her aid, he would get a perfect score for leg 6. Within minutes, the Coast Guard had been called by radio, and Hurricane III was back on course...
Road to Withdrawal. At first glance there would seem to be little connection between cerebral palsy, which results from damage to the movement-control centers of the brain, and deep breathing. However, Speech Therapist Harrington (no M.D. but a Ph.D. from the State University of Iowa) noted the distress that besets so many C.P. victims when they try to talk. It comes, he reasoned, from the fact that breathing control is one of the motor centers most often and severely affected. This has an especially bad effect on speech. "After all," asks Harrington, "how much can you say on half...
...least known and most successful work is its continuing effort to rescue half the world's population from poverty and distress. With a yearly budget of barely one thousandth of the world's yearly arms bill, a handful of U.N. men and women are seeking by peaceful means to bridge the gap between the haves and the havenots...
...Times's Harold Hobson as "the best Macbeth since Macbeth's." Said Critic Hobson: "It must be admitted that the opening scenes of Sir Laurence's Macbeth are bad; bad with the confident badness of a master who knows that he has miracles to come . . . As distress and agony enter into him, the actor multiplies in stature before our eyes until he dominates the play, and Stratford, and, I would say, the whole English theater . . . I do not believe there is an actor in the world who can come near...
...Instead, it was demonstrated that three women could stand in for four men on most jobs. In the Far-East, Air General George Stratemeyer was so pleased with the work of the WACs that he authorized them to wear flowers in their hair-much to the distress of the militarily proper WAC officers...