Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was distress in the coffee houses. "I think we're in for trouble," snapped one Madrileno as he folded his morning paper. "Thank God my wife never reads the papers...
Soon another Frenchman, the multimillionaire proprietor of Le Matin, Alfred Edwards, fell in love with her. The day Misia lunched at his home he left the table too distraught to eat. Edwards' wife berated Misia for upsetting the great man; rather than distress him, Mme. Edwards told her, Misia should become his mistress. Misia was indignant, but Edwards was persistent. For all the world like the heavy in a French melodrama, he lured Thadee Natanson into a disastrous business scheme, then offered to save him in exchange for Misia. The bargain was struck, Misia finally agreed, and after rapid...
...Anglican pamphlet] is not so much an attack as an expression of interior distress. It is an attempt, resulting from distress, to create unity by negative means. The authors are expressing not so much what they believe as their wish to say: 'This is what we dislike.' The pamphlet has little to add to ancient arguments beyond a certain bitterness of tone...
Students in five Houses yesterday learned that food can be as stimulating as any weekend refreshment. An undetermined number of Winthrop, Kirkland, Lowell, Eliot, and Leverett residents were awakened early Monday morning by sharp internal distress...
...Bennike, Chief Truce Supervisor, to New York to report. The U.N.'s Mixed Armistice Commission, chief enforcement agency of the truce, which has only the power to urge and deplore, deplored the Israeli act as "coldblooded murder." Britain, which stands behind the desert state of Jordan, wired its "distress" and "horror" in an angry message to Israel's government...