Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subplots to keep not only the most devoted spy thriller fan, but also the most fascinated student of human nature, absorbed. What drives the le Carre fans is not absurd schemes to take over the world, nor, of course, masturbatory fantasies, replete with sadistic fiends and willing damsels-in-distress. Rather, these are stories about men and women struggling to keep their heads above the filth that has become their lives, trying to rationalize the job they must do with a moral code that they have already stretched to the breaking point. For le Carre, those stories come together...
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey possesses a splendid-some think notorious-gift for Panglossian rhetoric in the face of economic distress. Last week he held forth with customary ebullience on Britain's economic prospects. But this time his optimism was well grounded. In addresses to Common Market finance ministers in Brussels, the Chancellor detailed evidence of solid performance...
There is something very satisfying about dashing heroes performing courageous deeds of derring-do to rescue beautiful maidens in distress from the predations of hideous monsters. The new season, especially at ABC, seems short on this sort of classic fantasy...
...handle followed Punch through four expensive prep schools and into the Marines, which he joined at age 17 to his parents' distress. But the corps gave Sulzberger a hard edge of purpose, and after World War II service in the Philippines, he enrolled at Columbia College, made the dean's list his first semester and graduated in 1951. After uninspired tours as a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal and the Times, Sulzberger took the first in his succession of management jobs at the family paper. He also took a Times secretary as his wife, had a son, Arthur...
These are the three Israeli settlements on the West Bank of the Jordan River that Israeli Premier Menachem Begin legalized last week, to the distress of the Carter Administration. The communities had been founded in 1974 and 1975 by ultranationalist Jews in defiance of Labor government policy...