Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sluggish Movements. Aside from their losses, no one was concerned about the Marines; they could take care of themselves. No one feared a Communist breakthrough anywhere. In Tokyo, Mark Clark said he was not distressed about the loss of Old Baldy. either. But there was quite visible distress in the 7th Division, resulting from tactical confusion and confused statements about what the troops were doing. The division commander, Major General Arthur Trudeau, was publicly rebuked by I Corps' Commander Paul Kendall...
...Distress & Tragedy. With the help of an echo chamber, 39-year-old Edwards gets an eerie, disembodied quality into his voice, but everything comes back to happy normality in time for the Hazel Bishop No-Smear Lipstick commercial. Last week Edwards addressed Lillian Roth as if he were a supernatural prosecutor: "Confusion, distress and tragedy walked by your side even as you rose to the top-and soon all glamour was stripped from you, as drink follows drink, and you sink into a stupor that was to last for 16 years. These are the years to come before...
...been a tough 17 months. One subcommittee member, Idaho's Republican Senator Herman Welker, and two investigators had charged that the subcommittee was being unfair to McCarthy, and had resigned. The original chairman, Iowa Democrat Guy Gillette, had resigned in distress over other resignations. Senator McCarthy himself had stubbornly and slyly avoided testifying in his own defense. He contended that the investigation was just a "smear...
...Last week, in a statesmanlike manner, he conceded it. He still did not agree with the President's decision, said Shennan, but "we are aware that [it] reflects a widespread belief that a reduction of tariff barriers will further the interests of world peace. However much it may distress him personally, no responsible American can deny the general wisdom of such a policy...
Meanwhile, faculty distress at Eliot's elective system was growing. In 1903 came a report by the Faculty Committee on Improving Instruction, largely written by A. Lawrence Lowell. The report pointed up what Lowell considered the sad state of the Harvard curriculum. "In the college today," the report declared, "there is too much teaching and too little studying." The report went on to state that students were spending as little as 3 1/2 hours a week on courses. It also criticized the elective system for allowing haphazard choosing of courses based on how easy they were or what hours they...