Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Residents around Miami International Airport who are recovering from hangovers next New Year's Day may be spared further distress from low-flying jets. That is when Federal Aviation Regulation 91, which bans many noisy planes from U.S. air ports, is scheduled to go into effect. But for the 30 Caribbean, Central and Latin American as well as eight domestic airlines that fly to and from Miami with predominantly aging and noisy Boeing 707s, DC-8s and BAC-111s, the headaches will have just begun...
...kleptomaniac specializing in chocolate. Since then her crimes have escalated. She is now a member of the Front for the Liberation of Europe, a violent terrorist gang. The ingenuous Harvey is abruptly surrounded by lawyers and well-wishers who compound his confusion and television reporters who increase his distress. They are, of course, the modem equivalents of Job's comforters and plagues...
Than similar proclamations of distress...
...investigator of the pain phenomenon was San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson. Says he: "One of the strange things about pain is the mind's refusal to keep old distress in focus. In my younger days, a truck hit my car and I spent nine months in an itchy body cast, but I no longer have painful, or even unpleasant, memories of the event." Thompson, in reporting the cover story, was especially impressed by Seattle Anesthesiologist John Bonica, an immigrant and former circus strongman who went on to become a pioneer in the field of pain alleviation...
...joint Allied operation. But the Americans, from Eisenhower down, dominated the drama. The invasion, in a way, was a perfect expression of American capabilities: vast industrial energy and organizational know-how sent out into the world on an essentially knightly mission-the rescue of an entire continent in distress. There was an aspect of redemption in the drama, redemption in the Christian sense. The Old World, in centuries before, had tided westward to populate the New. Now the New World came back, out of the tide, literally, to redeem the Old. If there has sometimes been a messianic note...