Word: distressfully
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...bathroom philosophy or desktop distress, Harvard graffiti begs the question, so aptly asked in the Adams Tunnels...
...they love to stargaze. They will put an attractive actress on-screen for 1 1/2 hours and mostly . . . just . . . watch . . . her. She poses at a window, she listens to the phone ring; in a moment of high agitation she may drag on a Gauloise. A vision of dyspeptic distress, she is a modernist pinup for the monastic voyeur behind the camera. When the woman is lovely, pouty Juliette Binoche, and the director is Krzysztof Kieslowski, the picture can become the X ray of anguish: not stargazing but soul gazing...
Donning a real sword for Halloween, junior Kwame van Leeuwen, a world championship fencer, appropriately chose to be Zorro, the master of drape swinging and savior for those in distress...
AUCH: Judging by the traffic on a new telephone hotline for farmers facing financial and emotional distress, there are a lot of them. The hotline was set up in southwestern France, where many farmers are in danger of losing their land; operators fielded calls from 12 desperate people the first day. Said a spokesman for the line's sponsor, the Catholic charity Secours Catholique: "A whole way of life is disappearing." Farmers have the second highest rate of suicide of any occupation in France, so the hotline could be a lifeline...
Nobody understands Angola's ranking on the distress scale better than Dr. Joaquim Neho, director of the hospital in Malanje, one of five inland cities under siege for the past year. His wards are filled with the pathetic detritus of conflict and famine, and the staff -- all of two doctors -- is overwhelmed. Ten children a day are succumbing to malnutrition and disease; for lack of beds, the dying lie on unscrubbed floors. Parents feed toddlers watery porridge. A skeleton-thin infant with bulging eyes silently gasps for milk from her mother's wilted breast...