Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read with distress of the Metropolitan Museum's recent selling of lesser art works [Feb. 26]. It seems likely to me that there are many smaller museums throughout our nation that could have afforded to purchase these pieces of art and would have been happy to have a Modigliani of lesser quality than none...
...most unlikely assemblage of foreign ministers under the glittering chandeliers of Paris' Hotel Majestic. Russia's Andrei Gromyko showed his distress at having to sit next to South Viet Nam's Tran Van Lam, who, in turn, frowned at the Viet Cong's Madame Nguyen Thi Binh. China's Chi Pengfei avoided even looking toward Gromyko, but chatted congenially with William Rogers, who affably courted both Chi and Gromyko. But despite all of the sensitivities and animosities around the huge circular table-and after a brief crisis that threatened to scuttle the entire Viet...
...city after city across the U.S., school districts are in financial distress, often largely because of such inequitable assessments. Philadelphia's example is illuminating. Some 13,000 teachers last week were in the second month of their third strike in three years, because of a demand for higher wages that the board of education says it cannot afford to meet. The schools already have a $34 million deficit, and Mayor Frank Rizzo had sworn not to raise taxes. Yet Philadelphia could go a long way toward wiping out its deficit with no increase in the tax rate by uniformly...
Meanwhile, the girls are explaining to anyone within earshot why the clandestine bordellos should be reopened. "To begin with," said a petite blonde named Paula at one press conference, "we bring business to neighborhood shopkeepers. Secondly, we succor bodies in distress. Finally, we're all mothers, you know, and you can't expect us to live on the government's family allowance...
...many blacks, for example, the 50 stars have come to signify so many stations of racism. To the poor, to disaffected minorities, to antiwar demonstrators, the pledge is the reverse of truth (one nation divisible, with liberty and justice for some). To them, the flag sometimes seems a distress signal, a pennant of aggression and ill-used power. The more militant have responded to it with the conditioned reflex of rage, flying the Stars and Stripes upside down from the Statue of Liberty or setting it aflame. In reaction to this lack of respect, the "100% Americans" and just plain...