Word: distressfully
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...University, which had come in for some criticism over its response to the center's financial distress, was defended by Bell, who said, "It's not fair to say that the University hasn't been helpful...
...FATE of our own "king" (and, in the eyes of many, the fate of the nation as a whole) also appears rather sad at this point. But the trouble does not lie with the process of impeachment itself. Rather, the nation's distress over the prospect of ousting Richard Nixon arises from legitimate if somewhat alarmist fears over the durability of our social order, and from the fact that king and kingship--or, more properly, president and presidency--have become strangely synonymous...
Congressmen are aware that, in the latest measurement by Louis Harris, they rate lower in public approval than the President himself. If impeachment is primarily a political act, the prospect can only distress those who worry about the low es tate of politics these days. Of course, low politics is undeniably present, with some adamantly for or against impeach ment for partisan reasons. But the majority of Representatives are now waiting for the framing of the charges by Attorneys John Doar and Albert Jenner, majority and minority counsel respectively, to the Judiciary Committee. Just as there are high crimes...
...worst--painted Allende as an imposter, a Red opportunist elected on a fluke. He was labelled "Marxist President" Allende to suggest that he was not a president in the sense of a Frei, a Thieu, or a Nixon. He was blamed for Chile's economic distress and for the consequent demonstrations of pot-banging housewives and striking truckers. He was, as The Times wrote, operating "brilliantly on borrowed time." Bernard Collier wrote in The New York Times Magazine in 1972: "The political problem for President Allende now is to control the kind of immature people his party has always attracted...
...still more presidential aide than Secretary of State. He seems to fit a little better back in his corner office of the White House West Wing. He is almost too short (5 ft. 8 in.), and his double chin gets out of control too easily (much to his distress) for him to look the part of a bona fide Secretary. Most important, he still relishes the simplified atmosphere of the White House, where he can hang up the gilded epaulets of the State Department, roll up his sleeves, and work in the air of pure power...