Word: distressfully
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...investigator of the pain phenomenon was San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson. Says he: "One of the strange things about pain is the mind's refusal to keep old distress in focus. In my younger days, a truck hit my car and I spent nine months in an itchy body cast, but I no longer have painful, or even unpleasant, memories of the event." Thompson, in reporting the cover story, was especially impressed by Seattle Anesthesiologist John Bonica, an immigrant and former circus strongman who went on to become a pioneer in the field of pain alleviation...
...joint Allied operation. But the Americans, from Eisenhower down, dominated the drama. The invasion, in a way, was a perfect expression of American capabilities: vast industrial energy and organizational know-how sent out into the world on an essentially knightly mission-the rescue of an entire continent in distress. There was an aspect of redemption in the drama, redemption in the Christian sense. The Old World, in centuries before, had tided westward to populate the New. Now the New World came back, out of the tide, literally, to redeem the Old. If there has sometimes been a messianic note...
...trial; her accusers were, Guinn was suing her church and its elders for $1.3 million in damages for publicly condemning her sexual behavior. She charged that in denouncing her, the Church of Christ in nearby Collinsville (pop. 3,500) had invaded her privacy, intentionally causing emotional distress and shattering her "whole world...
Then follows the thread of despair: 'But I didn't care about rules any more. I didn't care about memories. I was sick to death of tension and tiredness and distress and distorted values and the high-pitched level and the fortitude which we had proved beyond doubt that we possessed. I had passed the flame, I had had my initiation... I was sick to death of being on the qui vive all the time...
...holding, a few of the actress's chums, including Teri Garr, Virginia Mayo, Jaye P. Morgan, Rose Marie and Shelley Winters showed up to film part of the video. For the plumpish Winters, even Reynolds' laid-back style of lard burning prompted a display of distress. "Shelley is a dramatic actress," shrugs Reynolds. "She agonizes over everything." -By Guy D. Garcia