Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no longer room in the mobilization high command for opponents of immediate price and wage curbs. Mobilizer Wilson called Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine to his office and served him with an ultimatum: come up fast with a workable plan for controls or else. Valentine put in a distress call for the price czars of World War II days-Leon Henderson, Paul Porter, Chester Bowles-and conferred earnestly with them for two days. He patched together some suggestions and sent them to Wilson. They were not enough. With a flick of his wrist, Mobilizer Wilson got Valentine fired...
...against De Paul: miss baskets, slow down the game, "but don't stink it up." Junius was too jittery to play very long. Manhattan Coach Ken Norton had to take him out. But his substitute had a great night, sank eight baskets in eight tries. To the distress of gamblers betting on a sure thing, Manhattan upset De Paul...
...gamblers' distress was just beginning. Later the same night, the police picked up Old Grad Poppe. The story that Poppe told stole the basketball headlines last week: Co-Captain Poppe, working with his teammate, Co-Captain John A. Byrnes, had helped to throw three Manhattan games last year (against Bradley, Siena, and Santa Clara); each co-captain had collected $5,000 for his cooperation, plus a $40-a-week salary...
...Princeton, the graceful ivy of the liberal arts grows as green as at any school in the land. But the ivy has not blinded Princeton to the importance of such rough & tumble subjects as aerodynamics and supersonics. Since World War II, somewhat to the distress of oldtimers in sedate and leafy Princeton, N.J., the university has been busy with basic research in such noisy things as rockets and ramjet engines for military aircraft. This week, with the U.S. defense effort in mind, Princeton proudly announced that it was plunging even deeper into the raucous physical sciences...
Offers are still pouring in. These have meant much to the city. All offered help in the spirit of helping their fellow man in distress . . . We are all deeply grateful to TIME for attracting worldwide attention to our epidemic and getting...