Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer the true face of the magazine. Another visage somehow hovers behind the columns, a face no longer young but not old, a wise, ironic face that has learned to tell a joke as well as take one; a face that can turn grim, be cause contemporary distress can no longer be answered with a riposte; a face that has resolved its youthful conflict. "If you can't be funny, be interesting." The advice no longer applies. The face at long last manages to be both - and a little more...
...Distress Calls. All this argues for action, and the Army has indeed tried. When the birds first arrived in October, choosing a roost near Fort Campbell's barracks, soldiers played recorded starling distress calls and set off firecrackers. The blackbirds moved to the 30 acres of pines, where their comings and goings have since daily halted plane take-offs and landings. Hoping to move the birds again, the Army thinned the stand of trees, thus reducing the habitat. The birds merely perched closer together...
Homans established that a fetus undergoes "distress" when the placenta, its connection to the mother, is separated from the uterus, and that under such distress a fetus might begin to inhale and exhale the amniotic fluid that surrounds it within the amniotic...
Ford's willingness to come to the people palms up is admirable. Still, he is in no position to offer soothing syrup. The spreading economic distress now reaches into every home daily, in living color, in living reality, or both. He cannot blink the fact that foreigners now hold significant strings, pulling on the nation's destiny...
Local coverage is worse. Stories tend to deal with economic distress largely in terms of symptoms, local color and superficial how-to guides. The Detroit Free Press, to its credit, recently supplemented coverage of auto industry layoffs with a useful story on how to navigate the maze of local bureaucracies disbursing unemployment benefits. But many papers flop even in such routine backyard reporting. During the fall, for example, the Atlanta Constitution did several stories on layoffs in auto plants elsewhere, but delayed in mentioning whether factories in its own circulation area would be hit (they soon were). Its sister paper...