Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killed by East German border guards at the Berlin Wall five years ago. West Berlin's police chief (since furloughed) hardly helped matters when he called the anti-Shah crowd "a liverwurst . . . You press it in the middle to squeeze it out at the end." To the distress of the student leaders, Brandt refused to condemn the club-swinging Berlin cops...
...office. Monro suggested that the CEP send its pass-fail proposal, in final form and ready for a Faculty vote, back to the new HPC for its approval. "I expected that the HPC would approve it and that we'd be sailing right along," recalls Monro, who watched "in distress" as the new HPC members decided that the proposal did not give pass-fail the flexibility they hoped it would. For fear of arousing the students' resentment, Monro said little as the new committee disowned the proposal and wrote out a new one asking that pass-fail be attached...
...strike grew out of girls' distress that only 36 juniors are being allowed to move out of college housing and into their own apartments next year. The 23, cramped in Edmands House for the duration of the strike, argued that "every girl in next year's senior class ought to have the option of living in non-college housing." One-hundred-thirty-one juniors had applied for the 36 places after spring vacation, so that the residence office was forced to hold a lottery. Although the strikers, most of whom were juniors, had been meeting with administrators for six weeks...
...vote neared, Ford realized that he had no chance to win. The 50 or so Southern Democrats he could count on were nearly offset by about 35 Republican defectors. There followed some intricate maneuvering over whether the Democrats should force a roll-call vote -adding to the Republicans' distress-but the Democrats finally settled for an anonymous teller-vote victory over the Quie amendment...
...Much Grease. Director Joseph Strick had greater cause for distress when he discovered that 20 lines of Molly Bloom's famous soliloquy had been blacked out of the subtitles. Storming into the projection booth, he was confronted by six guards. "That's my film!" Strick cried. "You've mutilated it, and you've got to stop the projection!" There was a struggle, and Strick was thrown out of the booth. Limping back to his balcony seat on a twisted ankle, he screamed, "Stop the projection! My film has been mutilated!" The picture continued...