Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stretch of sandy scrubland in the remote northeast, the 280,000 tribesmen know few tools other than their steel-bladed spears, live on little more than a mixture of curdled blood and milk, and have no wealth other than their thirsty herds. But much to the Karamoigongs' distress, all that really seems to disturb the reform-minded regime in far-off Kampala is the fact that they have no clothes...
...action, Kelly became the second U.S. bishop in recent years to resign in distress. The first was Bishop James P. Shannon (TIME cover, Feb. 23, 1970), auxiliary bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, who resigned because he could not accept Pope Paul's teaching on contraception and because, as an articulate progressive, he had been largely isolated by powerful conservatives in the hierarchy...
...Holding candles flickering in a chilly wind, the veterans marched silently in pairs. The toy M-16s and "torture sticks" of daylight search and destroy missions had been left at the campsite. Led by five vets in wheelchairs, the march proceeded behind an upside-down American flag connoting distress...
...arrest and then added that he intended to review the Calley case before final sentence is carried out, he left several interesting things unsaid. One was that two days before he reportedly awoke at 2 a.m. to wrestle with his conscience over the Calley affair, the President discussed congressional distress at the guilty verdict by telephone with his party's leader in the House, Representative Gerald Ford of Michigan-although the White House insists it was not the President who brought up the subject. Another was that he bypassed Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird when he ordered Calley removed...
...productions are brightly colored Monopoly boards on which players can practice CIA takeovers and World Bank manipulations. In their way, they are as dour and simplistic as any Weatherman communiqué, and they lack the verve and pullulating fantasy of earlier Fahlstroms. They are participatory posters, meant as ironic distress signals. Granted their bald look, it can still be said that no painter has approached the radical dissatisfactions of the times with a blacker or edgier...