Word: distressfully
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...operate outside the law or in the absence of the law, but they represent justice. Gene Autry, a movie cowboy of that generation that always looked amazingly well laundered, their white hats refulgently creamy, once formulated the Ten Commandments of the Cowboy. They included injunctions to help people in distress, tell the truth always, be "kind to small children, old folks and animals" and "respect womanhood." The cowboy image got dirtier and morally ambiguous in the era of Clint Eastwood, perhaps, but the persona remained heroic. If Arafat wished to be intelligible to an American audience, he should probably have...
...Strangelove with the solemn declaration "You'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company." He permits no distractions, such a sexy secretary (Greta Scacchi) or a revolutionary waiter, to block his quest for constant innovation He does however make time for children, old ladies, and animals in distress, which shows that underneath his corporate exterior exists something more human...
...that must be attended to promptly if they are to survive and those that will live or die regardless. The treatment most often called for by the victims of trading wars is protectionism. But as these examples make clear, unfair foreign practices are not always the real cause of distress, and trade barriers, while providing short-term relief, may in the long run be counterproductive...
...Versalles, the Montreal and the Principado. About six others reported less severe damage. At least ten major government buildings were affected, including the ministries of marine, labor and commerce, as well as the complex housing the state-owned Telefonos de Mexico. The destruction of government offices did not distress a cynical cabdriver, who commented, "Maybe there...
With so attentive an audience, Ballard, a devoted student of Titanic lore, could not resist bringing up a controversial subject: the actions of Stanley Lord, captain of the liner Californian, who Ballard said was definitely within reach of the sinking ship and may have ignored its white distress flares. Lord claimed at investigations of the tragedy that the Californian was more than 19 miles north of the sinking ship. "The Californian was inside of ten miles, perhaps as close as four miles," Ballard insisted, "and there is no doubt it could have gone in there and rescued those people...