Word: distressfully
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...that he heard for the first time of the Cohn-Schine matter. Although he could not say that Adams actually tried to use the Cohn-Schine report as a club, Dirksen said that he had a "vague" recollection of "hints" in that direction, all of which caused him much "distress of spirit...
...only a legend that Mexico City's altitude (7,800 ft.) causes heart trouble, says Dr. Chávez. Though some visitors who arrive with heart disease may feel distress and be advised to leave, natives and long-term residents are not affected. Only above 10,000 ft. does altitude trouble the healthy heart, he says...
...bridal suite. That night, to the disgust of the other guests, he gets drunk, and the next morning, to their scandal, they discover that he has not only abandoned the poor young thing on her wedding night but has stolen her pocketbook, too. The maiden is not long in distress. The other guests, led by a kindly old dowager (Marie
Zoologists Hubert Frings and Joseph Jumber of Pennsylvania State College observed that starlings have a special "distress call." Sneaking into a barn one winter night, the researchers caught a starling that was sheltering there and held it up by its feet. The bird gave a piercing shriek, and the other starlings fled from the barn. When the trick worked well in several barns, Frings and Jumber caught more starlings and made them shriek their distress calls into a tape recorder...
...night last summer, at State College, Pa., where 20,000 starlings had formed a monstrous roost, Frings and Jumber set up their tape recorder under four infested trees. The starlings awoke to the nightmare sound of starlings in deep distress. They fled the haunted trees and did not come back...