Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Audrey Currier established the philanthropic Taconic Society which aims to "alleviate human distress and create opportunities for the disadvantaged." John Simon, president of the foundation, spoke about its activities at the ceremony...
...across as calm and concerned, if somewhat theatrical. Everyone, he pointed out, is for law-and-order; the Democrats have voted for Nixon's anticrime legislation. What about national unity, he asked. What about racial tension, the environment, economic problems? "There are those who seek to turn our common distress to partisan advantages, not by offering better solutions but with empty threat and malicious slander...
MICHIGAN. Widespread unemployment, in large measure due to the strike against General Motors, has idled 180,000 workers in Michigan. The economic distress is an inhibiting factor in Governor William Milliken's campaign. He was the favorite to win in November until his indecisiveness and the strike combined to boost his opponent, Sander Levin, a former Democratic state chairman. Still, Milliken is a slight favorite-unless popular Democratic Senator Phil Hart has coattails long enough to sweep up Levin...
THERE ARE enough Americans living in exile nowadays that one more won't make much difference, I suppose. But S. J. Perelman's recently announced move to England should be a real cause for distress, if only for what it says about America's sense of humor. It's not just the violence, he says, it's the way the violence fills up the newspapers and doesn't leave any room for his stock in trade: the bizarre, the eccentric, and the unusual. England, he thinks, will be better. I hope he's right. I doubt...
...case, the one person who might have displayed outrage, Robert Bowie, gave no indication of any distress as he chatted with the swarms of media people. He had taken the time to put on a grey Brooks Brothers suit and a tie before coming over, and he was very much a man in control. No, he had not worried in advance about possible violence at the CFIA. No, he didn't think any files had been removed from the building in anticipation of such an incident. No, he didn't think X (one of the more prominent student propagandists against...