Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drink it anyway. Fresh fruit and vegetables were no longer available, flour was in short supply, and lines formed at dawn outside shops that were lucky enough to have any bread to sell. The siege came at the height of the torrid Mediterranean summer, increasing the general distress. When available at all, a $3 case of bottled water was selling for $10. The Palestinian guerrillas were less affected by the food shortage than the general population because they had built up their own supplies...
...lifelong truce. It is a melancholy fact that it has rekindled old fears. But perhaps not so unhappily, it may be a prime mover in helping to bring to a close an era of mindless promiscuity. The monogamous now have one more reason to remain so. For all the distress it has brought, the troublesome little bug may inadvertently be ushering in a period in which sex is linked more firmly to commitment and trust. ?BY John Leo. Reported by Maureen Dowd/New York with other bureaus
...planned garden cities of late 19th century England. (He put his mortgage where his mouth was, living from 1924 to 1935 in the carefully structured community of Sunnyside, just across the East River from Manhattan.) Mumford dislikes automobiles, real estate developers, skyscrapers ("towering urbanoid anthills") and, to the distress of less punctilious planners, the untidy vitality of immigrant neighborhoods. For more than half a century he has railed against the gracelessness and alienating giantism of housing developments. We shape our buildings, Mumford believes, and thereafter they shape...
Having just dumped all my old galleys to make room for a word-processing system, J.D. Reed's report on their possible value [April 26] caused me acute distress ... and provoked thoughts about the electronic future...
...many roads to a caesarean. In fact, it often seemed to Harrison that all roads led there. If the mother has not delivered within two hours after her cervix has dilated fully, protocol generally calls for a caesarean or forceps-assisted delivery. If highly sensitive monitors detect "fetal distress," a section is of ten done. If the mother has received so much local anesthetic that she cannot push, she may be cut. Three out of the first four deliveries at "Doctors" in which Harrison assisted were caesareans, though the hospital records show a 19% rate. Doctors like to do caesareans...