Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boorda was in distress, no one seemed to know. He was a career Navy man, a native of South Bend, Indiana, who enlisted at 17 (lying that he was 18 so he could get in) to escape a troubled childhood and an alcoholic father. He married at 18, and his first child, David, was born with a rare congenital condition that causes a malformation of limbs and organs. (By his fourth birthday, David had had 17 operations.) Boorda served two tours of duty in Vietnam and worked his way up the ranks, commanding surface ships and serving in various Pentagon...
Complaints about crime, unemployment, corruption and the growing disparity between haves and have-nots rounded out the chorus of distress. By day's end Yeltsin appeared tired and beaten. He seemed to have been unaware of the passion of discontent outside Moscow, a city about as representative of Russia as New York is of America. Yeltsin himself is partly to blame for being so out of touch. Suffering from an apparently serious heart ailment, the man many Russians liken to a modern-day czar has for the past two years been a virtual Kremlin recluse. And his inner circle...
...mean by that?/ Perhaps I'm the tool you take me for,/ Not anything more." In the faux-perky, hit-bound I Can't Love You Anymore, Lovett travels a Georgia road (that's Roberts' home state) and gets the Good Lord's dispensation to give his "angel in distress" a gentle but firm kiss-off. "I don't love you any less/ But I can't love you anymore...
Although Kaplan and Bobrick refused to comment on damages, court documents indicate Bobrick is seeking $450,000 for legal costs, emotional distress and harm done to his reputation and earning capacity. The suit also claims the University didn't pay Bobrick commissions after he was dismissed in March 1993, in violation of his contract...
...their cohorts, it is equally important to remember the deafening silence of a world who refused to act on behalf of the Jewish people in spite of their tremendous ability to do so. If there was one country which the Jews could have turned to in this time of distress, their annihilation could have been stopped, or at least the pace of it could have been slowed. Sadly, this was not the case...