Word: distressfully
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...possessions and waited for documents that never came. In desperation, the group finally wrote to Israel's Premier Golda Meir, pointing out that their appeals to Russian officials had "disappeared like teardrops in desert sands." Mrs. Meir, who is Russian-born, forwarded their "sincere and heartfelt cry of distress" to the United Nations' Human Rights Commission...
...long downhill slide to alcoholism. Along this anguished course, Grover somehow earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from George Washington University. That and a therapeutic experience with Alcoholics Anonymous set him to thinking about applying A.A.'s principles to other fields of human distress...
...Mental Hygiene, which considers it a useful adjunct to formal psychotherapy. The state's parole board distributes N.A. literature to parolees, as do mental hospitals and Veterans Administration hospitals elsewhere in the U.S. If N.A. works at all, it is because it allows people to share their emotional distress with other troubled but sympathetic members. "It's not the specific therapeutic factors involved but the responsiveness and effective human relationship that are doing good," says Dr. Edward Stainbrook, head of the Department of Human Behavior at the University of Southern California. "It's sort of pathetic...
...birth the infant was limp. She died with severe respiratory distress at the age of nine hours. The infant weighed 5 Ibs. She had a sloping forehead, poorly differentiated, low-set ears, a broad nose with prominent bridge, and bilateral epicanthic folds. A slight fatty hump was noted at the nape of the neck. Both hands had simian creases. The left hand had four fingers (thumb and three fingers); a rudimentary sixth finger was attached to the right hand. The right foot showed a slight deformity. A roentgenogram taken after death showed eleven pair of thin ribs, absence of part...
...that as a first step toward solving the problem, adult society must admit its own responsibility: "Both the actual miracle and the myth of modern medicine have made the use of drugs highly legitimate, as something to be taken casually and not only during moments of acute and certified distress. Our children, in being casual about drugs, far from being in revolt against an older generation, may in fact be acknowledging how influential a model that generation...