Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday morning, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to a distress call from an undergraduate reporting an assault outside the Barker Center...
...surgeons were truly impersonal (or, one might say, truly neutral) they would not heed the calls of distress from suffering humanity when they themselves were otherwise engaged in watching the ticker, or playing bridge, or writing thoughtful treatises on the insanity of their fellow men. They would not go to the considerable trouble and risk of using their knives to remove the malignant growths in the body of civilization. They would always find comfortable refuge behind that ancient question, "Am I my brother's keeper...
According to custom, the ladies each received a long-stem red rose and the men a small cigar. To the distress of the security guards, the majority of the cigars were lit inside the ball-room where there were no ashtrays...
...Office? Steele agreed but wondered why. While Isikoff was on his way to Steele's house, Willey called her again and told her what to say--that Willey had come to her house after returning from Washington that day, described a sexual advance by Clinton and was in great distress...
Steele's affidavit is obviously a help for Bob Bennett and All the President's Lawyers; the President doesn't hit on women, the argument will go, he just comforts them in distress, and they may misunderstand or exaggerate that gesture. In fact, says a source close to Clinton, it was the President who was upset by the whole Willey affair. She and her husband Edward, a lawyer, were longtime supporters who had run into serious trouble: Edward was accused of embezzling nearly $300,000 from clients. Penniless and publicly humiliated, Willey came to see Clinton, weeping and distraught...