Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pierson Dixon explained that his country has misgivings about Tibet's legal status, and therefore the U.N.'s right to intervene; he wants no embarrassing precedents set. On similar grounds, France regards Algeria and India considers Kashmir an internal affair. Krishna Menon expressed his nation's "distress" over events in Tibet but did not think "a warming up of issues" would help relax international tensions...
...sheer hand-wringing distress at Red China's aggression in the Himalayas, no other group in India can match the Communist Party. Muzzled by their political faith and unable to utter a wholehearted denunciation of Peking's violations of their own nation's frontier, the Communists have been publicly rebuked by Prime Minister Nehru, roundly blasted by a clutch of other politicians, including Nehru's daughter Indira, who has labeled Indian Communists "these parrots whose masters live abroad." Worse yet, India's public has become aroused against the Reds. By last week, this combination...
...People who moved out of neighborhoods to escape Puerto Ricans and have to pay much larger rents are inclined to blame their difficulty on the Puerto Ricans who moved in. People who have to stay although they would like to move out blame their distress on the Puerto Ricans, the scapegoat...
...morals and of the inefficiency of our police is to be seen in the frequent instances of murder by stabbing. The city is infested by gangs of hardened wretches.' One doesn't have to look very far to see whom Philip Hone blames for this distress: Irishmen, 'the most ignorant and consequently the most obstinate white men in the world...
...Natural Religion is evidently one of the most severe; many a small town has lost its most promising Baptist in those ordeals, and many a fashionable parish the scion of its most prominent Episcopalian. Freud's Moses and Monotheism or The Future of an Illusion must provoke nearly equal distress; one atheist passes up all alternatives listed on the questionnaire and writes, "God is man's interpretation of what dissatisfies him.... A rejection of God comes through progress towards understanding one's emotional condition." Another similarly explains, "psychological insight: God is a product of man; the most valuable part...