Word: distressfully
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Marooned on the deck of the wallowing ship, the crew ran up distress signals* on main-truck and foremast, slung the Stars and Stripes upside-down from the shrouds. Captain Milton dived into the flooded cabin, brought up a case of whiskey, some canned salmon, a flask of water. Diving down again, he found the ship's cat, Fluffy, on a shelf above water level in the cabin, brought her up in a sea bag, along with blankets, the ship's chronometer, a sextant, a flashlight, a picture of his wife...
...over C in the International Code of Flag Signals. The N flag is blue-and-white checkered; the C has five horizontal stripes, the middle red, flanked by two whites, the outsides blue. Both are rectangular. The message, in any language: "In distress. Need prompt...
...said flatly that: 1) railroad wages are not high; 2) a horizontal wage cut would not meet the emergency since the savings would not go merely to the needy roads; 3) a wage cut would run counter to the present trend of U. S. wages; 4) the railroads' distress since October 1937 is still a short-term situation which the current improvement in business may correct; 5) therefore, the roads should drop the whole idea...
...Immediately responsible for Richard Whitney's downfall was a seemingly innocuous rumor-that his company was engaged in "distress selling" of Greyhound stock. Investigation proved the rumor apocryphal but proved the firm insolvent...
...impression of taking their profession seriously. In the first place, none of the quintuplets has bothered to learn English. In the second place, what they speak, although it sounds vaguely like French, is really some sort of squirrel talk, whose complete unintelligibility to outsiders appears to delight rather than distress the Dionnes...