Word: distressfully
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...policy of tight money, regardless of the difficulties and hardships that are imposed on a large segment of our population. Volcker's approach can also be called intransigent and obstinate, which are synonymous with fanatic. In the course of history, fanaticism has never resulted in anything other than distress, frustration and misery...
...whole show went down the tubes. Promising a real-live captured guerrilla who would admit that he was Nicaraguan, had trained in Cuba and Ethiopia, and had fought for the rebels in El Salvador, the State Department called a briefing of its own. To the very apparent distress of the organizers this guerrilla refused to do his tricks...
...White House office the next day, Saturday, April 14. What he told me shattered everything. Garment's title, Special Consultant to the President, was grand enough, but without a specific area of responsibility. His emergence into prominence was usually a signal that Nixon was in some distress and required a steadying hand; and in recent days Garment had spent an increasing amount of time with Nixon...
...accept, even though it would probably mean the end of his military career. Haig replied that when he had gone on patrol in Viet Nam, he had risked not only his career but his life; he had no right to abandon his Commander in Chief in distress. He was shamingly right...
...White House office the next day, Saturday, April 14. What he told me shattered everything. Garment's title, Special Consultant to the President, was grand enough, but without a specific area of responsibility. His emergence into prominence was usually a signal that Nixon was in some distress and required a steadying hand; and in recent days Garment had spent an increasing amount of time with Nixon...