Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nerve cells when they receive a stimulus. The scientists spun rabbits on a centrifuge, just fast enough to make them dizzy and cause the cells in the acoustic nerve and the vestibular apparatus of the inner ear (a center of balance) to stimulate the brain with a sense of distress. Then they painlessly killed the animals and analyzed the nerve cells...
...Well, the people in New York have to make their judgments as to what kind of a party they want to build there. I have asked Mr. [John M.] Bailey, the new chairman of the Democratic Party, to lend a helping hand in attempting to alleviate some of the distress." The dry quality of this Kennedy understatement drew guffaws from the reporters-followed by the President's appreciative smile...
...Canada's growing spirit of economic nationalism, the Diefenbaker government's solution is to clip the U.S. eagle's tail feathers and declare economic independence. To the embarrassment-and distress-of the U.S., Canadian businessmen scrambled after trade with the Communist regime in Cuba, stayed strictly neutral in the politics and the battle. And then there is the Canadian government's year-end emergency budget, which promised a boost for Canadian business at the expense of U.S. capital investors. To Canadian enterprises went $60 million worth of tax concessions designed to prime Canadian investment at home...
...abnormalities. An exercise tolerance test causes no pain. Results of laboratory tests are normal. Chest X rays and routine electrocardiograms give no indication of the disorder. Eventually, says Dr. Prinzmetal, "on repeated visits the suspicion grows that the patient's symptoms are of psychoneurotic origin." But since emotional distress does not provoke the viselike pains, tranquilizers and sedatives do not relieve them. Bewildered, the doctor may tell his patient to go home and rest, only to have him stricken again there...
...wife is bloodied by a bullyboy's stone. The most vicious pressure of all is applied against Lamar by a member of his own race, a Mr. Barton, who acts as a "blockbuster," attempting to spread panic among the whites in order to purchase their homes at distress prices and resell to Negroes at a fat profit. Before Peaceable Lane lives up to its ironic name, Matt, Lamar and the others lose more than property values, but gain something like a good conscience...