Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disengagement, German unification-but the attitude is not one of simply giving way to Russia on them. If the Soviets really have serious bargaining in mind, they must give at least as much ground as they gain. The juggling by Western planners involves a study of which factors most distress Russia, how much Russia should be prepared to pay for an accommodation, and which bargains, if any, are of mutual advantage. The mood is of being pressed, but not of panicking...
...factory. Even geisha girls were rounded up for munitions work, and housewives organized into "patriotic" associations to sew uniforms and make bandages. When the war ended in humiliating defeat, the men were totally discredited, and the young women ripe for transformation into mambo-garu-generally to the distress of their mothers, who had already forgotten that, as "daughters of the earthquake," they too had once been all for emancipation...
Teaching Fellows in the English Department yesterday expressed "distress" at the way senior Honors theses were distributed to Faculty readers. "It is unfortunate," said one, "that theses on modern authors were given to tutors whose interest and competence lies in an earlier period...
...county is unlikely to find others. Hundreds of unemployed coal miners are in privation's clutch, haunted by the specter of expired unemployment compensation and dwindling food supplies. Kentucky's Governor A. B. ("Happy") Chandler has declared Harlan an emergency area. President Eisenhower was informed of the distress last week by Kentucky's two Senators, John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton. Private agencies make the rounds regularly with minimum food and clothes...
...plight of a distressed lady brings out -sometimes -the gallant in men, and rarely better than in Ghana. When the pet ostrich of chic Madame Claude de Guirin-gaud, wife of France's ambassador, disappeared, who should come hurrying to the rescue? None other than Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah himself. Hearing a missing-bird bulletin over the state radio station, Nkrumah forthwith phoned the chief of police in Accra to get his head out of the sand. Dragnet-quick result: the chief found his quarry in his own garden, triumphantly reported to the P.M., who triumphantly eased Madame...