Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...persuaded to come back to co-star with Cyd Charisse in her stage debut. Nanette Fabray is completely obnoxious, but the irascible Oscar Levant consistently manages to upstage her. The highlight is a dance number with Astaire as a private eye and Charisse as the sleazy streetwalker in distress. Lots of good songs, and a plot so old that you just have to love it. Channel 3. 9:00 p.m.--The Battling Bellhop. The two premiere tough-asses of all time meet in a tale of fighters, dames, and lots of money. Edward G. Robinson discovers Wayne Morris...
...Nixon as one of the major Presidents of the 20th century, in a rank just after Franklin Roosevelt, on a level with Truman, Wilson, Eisenhower, Kennedy." Six days after White left the President, James McCord's letter to Judge John Sirica blew open the Watergate coverup. In evident distress, White writes: "I was to be brought down from Olympus to consider, with the President and millions of other Americans, the housekeeping of power-and its abuse...
Once upon a time, princesses automatically married princes or other noblemen, as surely as knights rescued damsels in distress. Not any more - not even British princesses. Last week, Buckingham Palace announced "with the greatest pleasure" the engagement of Queen Elizabeth's only daughter, Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor, 22, to Lieut. Mark Phillips, 24, a hand some commoner in the Queen's Dragoon Guards...
...Kilson's distress at the delayed publication was in no way lessened by either the Bulletin's concern about factual errors in his piece, or its editors' wish to honor the black students' request to answer the serious charges he leveled at their intellectual ability, mental stability and basic integrity. This is significant, for Kilson has justified his attacks on blacks by the desire to stimulate debate on a serious issue. Evidently, he prefers that discussion be non-adversarial, thus facilitating his practice of altering the facts to fit his arguments. It is a phenomenon that, regrettably, is far from...
Most scientists believe that a swelling chorus of anti-scientism could jeopardize solutions to the technological problems that so distress Roszak and other critics. "We have created the kind of world we cannot reverse," says M.I.T. President Jerome Wiesner, a presidential science adviser in the Kennedy Administration. "Too many people are too dependent on technology for everything from agriculture to distribution of goods...