Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman stood before me that day in early July, her craggy voice a mixture of outrage and distress. She has been eyeing me suspiciously for some time while I scribbled furiously into a notebook for my summer job as a researcher-writer for the budget travel guide "Let's Go China." She calmed down somewhat with the realization that I was not professionally interested in her personal life, in how she, an Australian, came to become a hostel owner in the Chinese wilderness, apparently a topic of great ongoing interest to the Chinese press...
...very emotional," said Jones as she began her tour of the stables turned museum. Look, there is Diana's wedding gown. There, the handwritten draft of the earl's famous funeral oration. There, on a lakeside garden temple, is a plaque with Diana's words, "Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running, wherever they are." And, finally, on an island in the lake, unreachable, are the plinth and urn that commemorate her burial place...
...forests that have evolved without fire," says Nels Johnson of Washington's World Resources Institute. "There is no historical precedent for the fires in the cloud forests of the Lacondon region of Mexico." Fire storms in the rain forests--the very idea defies common sense--have become an unmistakable distress signal from the developing world...
...driven by an intense desire for companionship and that, without this simple necessity, humans are bound to feel miserable. In "Shipmates Down Under," a father and son explore the realm of unspoken filial connections, discovering the faith that each has in the other in a time of family distress...
Would it have been better in The Graduate if the church door had held, and Dustin Hoffman had not been able to burst in on the scene and whisk Katharine Ross away? In which circumstance would the damsel have been in greater distress? Does love really conquer all? That, I always thought, was the point of the movie...