Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crew alive during those final moments? Did the pilots manage to briefly pull the plane out of its dive, or was the aircraft reflexively entering a climb as the near-supersonic dive increased the lift of its wings? And why were the pilots unable to send out a distress signal...
...REACTION Sure, athletes look good while they work out, but they may not feel so great. A report suggests that up to 70% may experience stomach distress during exercise. Competitive runners are prone to lower-bowel problems like diarrhea, probably because blood rushes from the intestine to hardworking leg muscles. Weight lifters and cyclists, for their part, tend to suffer from heartburn. Why? Because tensing abdominal muscles or hunching over the handlebars can cause stomach acid to rise into the esophagus...
...while, the epidemic was spreading. Hundreds of dead crows were turning up in the metropolitan region, and cases of the disease in humans were reported elsewhere in the city and suburbs. Using trucks and choppers, the city loosed clouds of pesticide in the middle of the night, to the distress of many residents. Nearby towns quickly followed suit...
...remember I was talking to my literature teacher shortly after our ninth-grade finals were over when the teacher who taught some of the other classes for the same course barged into the room in a visible state of distress. She interrupted our conversation with loud cries to the effect that her students had learned nothing and that she might as well have been away windsurfing all year instead of lecturing...
...last thing a man in distress wants to see coming over the horizon [to save him] is a feminist in battle gear," she said, eliciting chuckles from the crowd...