Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skills, empathy is an innate quality that can be shaped by experience. Infants as young as three months old exhibit empathy when they get upset at the sound of another baby crying. Even very young children learn by imitation; by watching how others act when they see someone in distress, these children acquire a repertoire of sensitive responses. If, on the other hand, the feelings they begin to express are not recognized and reinforced by the adults around them, they not only cease to express those feelings but they also become less able to recognize them in themselves or others...
...academies. But in the end, that accommodation was far from what she needed to get through. After hours of exercising in the morning sun, she was unable to hold down her lunch-Beefaroni-or even a few swallows of Gatorade. With four male cadets who were also suffering physical distress, she reported to the infirmary. All were treated and discharged during the afternoon. Faulkner and three others returned soon after when they became sick again...
Wendy Gramm, wife of GOPpresidential contender Phil Gramm, was released from a West Virginia hospital today after being treated for heat distress. Gramm, 50, collapsed Tuesday after skating 105 miles of a cross-Maryland tour on a hot and humid day as part of her husband's campaign. The 52.5 hilly miles between Frostburg and Hancock proved too taxing...
...former Harvard employee has filed a lawsuit against the University and one of its current employees alleging breach of employment contract and infliction of emotional distress...
With a particularly modern savviness, Ormond portrays a Guinevere who saves her ladies-in-waiting, pushes an attacker out the side of a runaway carriage and escapes an entire armed company en route to her marriage. This is no weepy damsel in distress...