Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority of distress signals have come from drivers with flat tires, empty gas tanks, and other auto trouble. Some 10% of the requests are for police assistance; in Massachusetts, for example, police answered a call from a woman who had jumped out of a car after her husband began beating...
...dragging troops in barges to England by night, Riddle's scenes carry remarkable conviction. One reason is Childers' extraordinary affection for his main characters, both the worldly Carruthers and Davies, whom Carruthers has always patronized but comes to admire. There is, of course, a damsel in distress - Clara, whose Englishness in the midst of Germans gives away the plot a bit early. But who cares? A man would have to be a brutish lout not to fall for Clara, with her "brown, firm hand - no, not so very small, my sentimental reader...
...employed workers. On the other hand, one could argue that high unemployment rates feed working-class discontent and thus could promote radical revolutionary consciousness. In short, I favor work sharing, not really as a means of promoting participatory democracy but as a means of alleviating the job insecurity, economic distress, frustration and boredom experienced by many working class people in America today. Jeffrey Holman '78 Coordinator, Harvard Students for McCarthy
...Sept. 28, I came to University Hall in order to convey to the Administration my great distress over the fact that regular classes were scheduled for Monday, Oct. 4, despite the fact that it is Yom Kippur...
...nightmare or the ultimate disaster movie. "The mind, in art and in life, feels a basic need for some kind of arrangement," another survivor summed up for Allen. "Suddenly deprived of this, it finds itself facing a horror and a loss that is far deeper than any mere physical distress of the moment...