Word: distressfully
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...ECONOMIC DISTRESS...
...sense a real threat to their economic security if inflation is not brought under control. Some 70% of all those questioned mentioned it as the No. 1 problem facing the country, far outstripping Watergate and other issues. Only a relatively small minority considered them selves to be in economic distress, but that minority is growing...
...deep trouble financially, 43% said that they were managing to cope with rising prices by trimming expenditures, and 34% reported that they had scarcely felt inflation's effects. By July the picture had changed. Fewer people found themselves able to cope (39%), and more people felt serious economic distress (28%). They are the group whose politics are most likely to be affected by changes in economic conditions in the future...
...found that 32% of those polled-up 5 percentage points in three months-were motivated by a strong sense of social resentment that was likely to influence their politics. It is resentment, rather than economic conditions, that binds the group together. Indeed, only a third found themselves in economic distress, as defined by TIME Soundings...
...leadership of the Republican Party at large, the fall of Richard Nixon was a moment of genuine distress. Barry Goldwater called it "the saddest days of my life." Many, like Georgia Party Chairman Robert J. Shaw, wept. John J. McCloy, an elder among New York Republicans, called the Nixon speech "a dignified statement, a dignified exit," adding: "We shouldn't expect any more than what it contained; we shouldn't cavil at it now." After watching the Nixon speech in California, Governor Ronald Reagan, who had continued to support the President until only a day earlier, said that...