Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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behind your face of sweet distress...
...company scintillates--show people, his Aunt Mema, judges, cops, and cartoon fantasies of Bruce's fertile mind. Coy, but too deadpan when she first appears, Shelley Thompson develops her role as Lenny's wife so that we hear the crack in her voice at the end as real distress. Ms. Thompson's aplomb in playing most of Act I in tassled pasties and G string was part of the Brucian sophistication of the whole production--a self-confidence unusual on a Harvard stage. With the same sharp style that Franken displays as he switches accents in spinning out dialogue...
...wish to express my distress at the way I have recently seen the University Health Services operate in cases of medical emergency. I am more than disconcerted at the handling of a call which I made this morning requesting help for Alfred Pickering '74, a student in Economics...
Through the echoes of the new verbalism, one can sense the distress of that crystal spirit, George Orwell. In Nineteen Eighty-Four he posited the principles of a new tongue. "In Newspeak," wrote Orwell, "words which had once borne a heretical meaning were sometimes retained for the sake of convenience, but only with the undesirable meanings purged out of them." "Goodsex" meant chastity; "crimethink" suggested equality. "The greatest difficulty facing the compilers of Newspeak," continued Orwell, "was not to invent new words, but, having invented them, to make sure what they meant: to make sure what ranges of words they...
...tourists in distress find an occasional U.S. consul coldly impervious to their problems, earlier travelers are probably to blame. Years ago, when I was a fledgling vice consul in Montevideo, Uruguay, I met and deeply sympathized with an upstanding young couple, innocent victims of unforeseen disaster. No official funds being on hand, I made them a personal loan of what amounted to two weeks' salary, never doubting that it would be repaid...