Word: distressfully
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Flanders came out against budget cuts at the expense of foreign aid. "If we can be of assistance anywhere at any time to nations in distress," he asserted, "$200 million is a small amount." He did feel, however, that the "people can get very much more for their money than they're getting...
...depreciate their investment for tax purposes at a less favorable rate than permitted for the new equipment big companies can afford to buy. Worst of all, inheritance taxes are so stiff that the heirs of many small family-owned businesses are often forced to sell off their holdings at distress prices, or are left without sufficient capital to continue operating...
...embarrassing on many counts. It asks the reader to share what Lael Tucker Wertenbaker calls her "abstract joy in the quality of his death," after which her "winter-white skin turned quite black and stayed dark for two days." It reports every intimate clinical detail of the pain, distress and hopelessness that afflict the victim of terminal cancer. As such, it tends to force into silence critics who may feel that they have been invited to share a private rite that Lael Tucker created about her dying husband-but who have doubts about its public validity...
...danger of stopping the heart is that if the surgeon inadvertently puts a stitch through a nerve bundle (which can later prove fatal), the quiescent organ can give no signal of distress until the heart is sewed up and filled with blood-and by that time it may be too late to undo the damage. In recent months several noted surgeons, including Blalock, Dodrill and the Mayo Clinic's John Webster Kirklin, have decided that the advantages of stopping the heart outweigh the risks...
...which some of the Finance Minister's own employees marched down the rue de Rivoli chanting "Hang Ramadier." Inexorably, the day is approaching when, if they want to keep their patient healthy and happy, Drs. Mollet and Ramadier will have to do more than ease his distress with a phony thermometer...