Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walked the land. I, St. Joseph, will tell you things you have never known." Then, instead of some horrific revelation, comes a homey bit of apocrypha from the saint, telling how the Holy Family rushed away from the dinner table one evening to aid a neighbor in distress, only to find the man unharmed when they arrived. "My son stood behind us with a big smile because he knew when we left the table that the Father had already heard the prayers." Mrs. Klug's locutions, be they from St. Joseph, St. Augustine, St. Anthony, St. Mary Magdalene...
...meets a whimsical New York tour guide named Peter Simon (Robert Klein). Peter woos her by parking his Volkswagen bus on a wharf and regaling her with tales of his childhood, his parents and his aborted career in the Peace Corps. Soon they are wed, to the considerable distress of Jaimie, who begins to wage acts of astonishingly clever psychological warfare...
...your salary, young man," she protests, but in vain. That scene in Olivia de Havilland's 1962 movie, Light in the Piazza, often evokes a knowing chuckle from seasoned American travelers. U.S. consuls have a reputation-sometimes deserved, frequently not-of being coldly impervious to fellow citizens in distress. Now that the expanding but unreliable charter-flight business is leaving a growing number of travelers high and dry (TIME, Sept. 4), the question of the consuls' responsibilities is more pressing than ever...
Welcome Nowhere. Despite the Asians' distress, Amin's decision was obviously popular with the country's 10 million Africans, who generally resent the Asians for their relative-if still modest-wealth, their clannishness and sharp business practices, and their historic stranglehold on the wholesale and retail trades. "The British brought the Asians here to exploit us," cried one African speaker at a demonstration in Kampala. "They keep us in economic slavery." Amin himself accused the Asians of everything from sneaking money out of the country to keeping their account books in Hindi and Gujarati to confuse...
Near midnight, after the deed had been done and Richard Nixon was the nominee and the programmed frenzy had died, a warm-faced woman in her 50s shuffled through the debris, turned to a stranger, and in a voice of housewifely distress, said, "My heavens, did you ever see such a mess in your life?" It was down home in Miami Beach with the folks who, it may be, really run America...