Word: distressfully
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...Yeatsian distress the Harvard community gazes anxiously at the widening gyre of its dramatic activities. With at least a dozen groups already formed and new ones blossoming each month, there is some ground for this mild hysteria. Opinions differ as to the nature of the problem--some say that acting talent is spread too thinly, other that there is not enough capital at hand--but the groups agree that the root of the trouble is dissipation of effort. Many feel that this dispersion can only be prevented by legislation...
...meetings, where policy is reviewed, problems discussed and assignments made. Adams is quietly on hand for many of Ike's business talks with visitors. On other matters, he is in and out of the President's office half a dozen times a day. This causes him some distress, because of a firm credo: "The really efficient Government official is the man who makes decisions for himself, within the framework of established policy, without running to the President with his problems...
...around which the farm-policy argument turns. Their present income is lower by about 10% than it was three years ago. Considering the skill and the capital that their job requires, their income is low compared to other U.S. workers. But their position is not one of desperation or distress...
...Admetus, fated for untimely death, received an out from Apollo, who out of love for Admetus' punch-bowl tricked the Fates into accepting a substitute. He voiced an ironic distress at the death of his wife, Alcestis, who volunteered to die for him after his senile parents declined the gambit. She was revived by the demi-god Heracles, also out of love for the punch-bowl. But Admetus saw his monstrousness and found little happiness at her return...
...High & Too Long. While the farm situation does not add up to distress, hardly anyone is satisfied with it. The leading Democratic contenders for the presidency, Adlai Stevenson and Averell Harriman, have come out for a return to the old program of rigid price supports for basic farm products at 90% of parity. But few serious students of farm economics, ex politics, would accept that solution...