Word: distressfully
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...Socialist Republics, Friend Wiley went along as Counselor of Embassy. Then came a rift in the diplomatic comradeship. Counselor Wiley married a Polish sculptress named Irene Baruch. Relations between Ambassador and Counselor soon cooled to the extent that John Wiley was transferred to Antwerp as Consul General. But the distress of Ambassador Bullitt was not so easily ended. There was not a single U. S.-born wife among the career men on his staff. Beset by thoughts of tattling tongues and divided loyalties, he complained to his good friend President Roosevelt that his staff dinners resembled League of Nations functions...
...what logic it is difficult to see. They forced payment of that bonus years before it was due. Now they are pressing on to demand pensions for every member, and for their families, no matter when required. Beside these mammoth treasury raids, unhesitatingly made in times of severe economic distress, the petty steals in disability pensions which produced such paradoxes as football players drawing total disability pay become pale and unimportant...
...Transport, Inc., passenger-mail line between El Paso and Pueblo, Colo. Meeting bad weather, Pilot C. H. Chidlaw landed at Trinidad, Colo, for the night. Next morning he and his two passengers headed north again. Twenty minutes later, three ranchers near lonely Rattlesnake Buttes saw the plane circling in distress through the heavy blizzard. Apparently intending to land, Pilot Chidlaw cut his motor. Suddenly he saw the butte ahead, desperately gunned his ship in an attempt to clear it. He failed. Running to the wreck, the ranchers found "the mangled bodies of two men and a woman...
...become increasingly important. Great progress has been made toward eliminating the peculiarly aloof and patronizing air college men so frequently display when engaged in social service activity. In the not so distant past the security of their own future insulated their minds to any relative application of the distress encountered to their own lives and position in society. Direct contact with the results of unemployment insecurity, and poverty has brought today greater realization of their importance and position to the average undergraduate...
...result, according to the indictment, was that large sums of money were arbitrarily extracted from jobbers. Furthermore it was specifically charged that the defendants were still attempting to stabilize prices by taking ''distress" (i. e., excess) gasoline off the market, particularly in the East Texas fields...