Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distress our friends," said 73-year-old Paul Reynaud last week, "and are the laughing stock of our enemies...
...weeks, Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson has been besieged by Congressmen from "distress" areas like Detroit to do something about the unemployment created by lagging defense orders amid civilian cutbacks. At the same time, small businessmen have been clamoring for a bigger share of defense work. Last week the Administration gave in to the political pressures and issued two orders that scandalized and alarmed many a Congressman...
...foundations for a hundred years of Pax Britannica, he put on a classic display of balance-of-power diplomacy: to counter the threat of Russo-Prussian hegemony in Europe, Castlereagh threw Britain's weight on the side of the former enemy, France. Britons blamed Castlereagh for the economic distress following the Napoleonic wars, the neglected veterans of Waterloo and the martyrs of Peterloo (hundreds of hungry English weavers shot down by the militia for protesting their working conditions). Shelley wrote: "I Met Murder on the way-He had a Mask like Castlereagh." In 1822, in a fit of depression...
...into trouble. An earthquake in the Northwest did $250,000 worth of damage to its plywood plants, a price war cost it still more, and profits plummeted 90%. But Cheatham went right on picking up bargains with surplus cash. He bought a $2,000,000 plywood plant for the distress price of $300,000, snagged the Acme Door Corp. for less than its net asset value. It now accounts for 5% of all U.S. sales of wooden doors...
...absurd to maintain that a copper bird could have arranged a series of audiences with notables, or eluded pursuers unaided, Ever since what now appears to have been a wilful theft, his captors have consistently made a spectacle of the revered mascot--to what purpose, save to embarrass and distress its owners, it is hard to imagine...