Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sister Ruth skips quickly over the political blush that came into her cheekbones and Mike's in 1946, when the Communist Party publicly booted them out for "left deviationism." Despite their poignant cries of distress, the party kept the door locked, Author McKenney and her husband in outer darkness. Says she now: "A dismal political row . . . The whole thing was a mistake...
...after the technicians arrived at Hermannsburg's 200-year-old former inn, the lectures began. "Too many Christians," said Pastor Hans Juergen Baden of nearby Wienhausen, "think about the church as they would a doctor-only to be used in times of distress. Immediately after the war, in those grim days of defeat, the churches were full. Many of us, witnessing this, held high hopes of a rebirth ... of Christianity in Germany. But alas, we were wrong." But Pastor Baden is still hopeful: "The road to God is a long one, but even the most modest approach...
...Luscious. Last week a deep distress pervaded the elegant resort. There, rashly in the public eye, was the town's aristocratic Jonsine da Silva Ramos, a young, perpetually smiling Brazilian, lord of 3,460 acres of rich coffee plantation in his native land. He was locked up in nearby Bayonne's jail, called Villa Chagrin, on charge of murdering his lovely wife, the equally patrician Monique, née Champin...
...Roman fort on the barbarian frontier. Three hundred years ago it looked out on the Turkish horde sweeping in from the East. During the siege of 1683, Vienna's resolute commander Count Ernst Riidiger Starhemberg climbed to the highest perch in the Gothic steeple, fired rockets of distress, at last spied the armies of Poland's Jan Sobieski and other allies marching to the city's relief. The Turks were beaten back, and the bells of St. Stephen's intoned free and joyous thanks...