Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Replying to comments that the campaign is not being carried on as high level as predicted. Key said, "the practical necessities of communication between political leader and voter result in considerable use of the vernacular, will somewhat to the distress of those who predicted a high-level campaign. Yet a campaign that gets to the people the issues at stake may quite well be a high level campaign, although the bluntness of the language of political debate may jar the sensibilities of the sensitive...
Green's genius for satire and whimsy makes him a superb interpreter of Gilbert's blandly ridiculous world. His finesse with patter is legendary, and he van steal a scene with a grimace of distress or a struggle with a rebellious toe. Scurrying up the scenery and tirelessly waddling, dancing and rolling across the stage, Green makes Tittipu an enormously funny place. His performance is a remarkable blend of subtlety and furious comic energy...
...Taipei, Formosa, the Hotel Owners' Association issued a public statement: "If there is any reason why you must end your life, it's always better to do 'so outside hotels. Suicides in hotels not only incur the managements considerable expense but also cause them great mental distress...
...finally took the first young surgeon's advice. Then it was too late. No psychiatrist could turn back the clock. By then the doctors agreed that her first trouble had been a simple, psychogenic stomachache, but it had snowballed until every problem in her life brought gastrointestinal distress. She became a hopeless hypochondriac, obsessed with her mentally tangled intestines, incurably ill with what the late great Sir William Osier, who was not given to psychiatric terminology, called "bowels on the brain...
...King's Highway in pathless China." In 20 years Francis Ford increased his flock from 9,000 to 20,000, built schools, hostels and churches. When World War II came, he stuck by his post, aiding Chinese guerrillas, helping downed Allied airmen escape, relieving war refugees in distress...