Word: distressfully
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...question was left hanging in the air. Reagan does not know the answer. Nobody does. He let his imagination go to the brink of the unthinkable in order to dramatize his distress over the nuclear doctrine of the Soviet Union and the U.S. Their mutual safety depends on their mutually assured destruction. "There's something so immoral about it," he said quietly...
...wealthy Americans were deeply depressed about their country during the Viet Nam War or the Iranian hostage crisis. At the same time, Americans just scraping by have sometimes felt truculently "good about America" at moments when the upper middle class was despairing. Today many Americans are in deep economic distress, and it is difficult for them to join in the feeling that the U.S. has suddenly become a coast-to-coast celebration...
...federal court jury of eight women and four men in Roanoke, Va., decided that Falwell had not been libeled because the parody was patently unbelievable. Yet in a surprising twist, it found Flynt and his magazine liable on the emotional-distress charge, awarding Falwell $200,000 in compensatory and punitive damages...
Until now, the emotional-distress argument has been successfully used mainly by individuals seeking redress against such pests as harassing bill collectors and malicious pranksters; one case, for example, involved a cruel joker who falsely spread the rumor that a woman's son had hanged himself. Constitutional experts warn that its use by public figures against the press could erode First Amendment protections by circumventing the rigorous standards of proof for libel. New York Attorney Floyd Abrams believes the verdict will be reversed, but, if not, it could encourage "an end run around constitutional protections for people who want...
...case for the rest of the day,' and have a cause of action. Where does it stop?" Flynt's lawyers plan to ask the judge this week to throw out the jury's finding. If he does not, legal scholars predict that the issue of emotional-distress suits against the press may ultimately have to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court...