Word: distressfully
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raid was an outright reprisal for the previous night's incident; the police claim that they were merely answering a distress call...
With losses deepening, fuel costs climbing and credit lines drying up, Pan American World Airways sent out a Mayday call of distress to the U.S. Government, pleading for emergency subsidies of $10.1 million a month. Last week Transportation Secretary Claude S. Brinegar said that "President Ford has concluded that it is not now fair to the nation's taxpayers to ask them to support our U.S. international flag carriers with direct cash subsidy payments." With that, the fate of the nation's senior overseas airline fell into the hands of the banks and insurance companies, to which...
Evidently, they are not. Much to the distress of the fund's trustees, the Wagnalls generosity seems to satisfy neither the local students nor the Internal Revenue Service. Though 159 Bloom Township boys and girls are currently receiving Wagnalls scholarships, the potential is much higher. Despite the Wagnalls largesse, only one in three Bloom Township seniors bothers to go on to college; so far only six of last June's 86 graduates have sought Wagnalls' support...
...thirds of the socially resentful are Democrats, but unlike voters in economic distress, they cast their ballots for Nixon (43%) over McGovern (30%) in 1972. But 38% said they would have preferred George Wallace if he had run for the presidency...
...ECONOMIC DISTRESS involves people who find themselves in serious economic trouble. The indicator was derived from a series of questions about urgent problems, among them difficulties in meeting bills, mortgage and rent payments, deep-seated fears of losing jobs because of an economic downturn, and serious worries about not being able to save for the future...