Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever be packed off to relatives for whom child care is just the latest of life's dirty tricks. Sometimes the kids run away and never come back. No wonder children in European films often look like stunted adults. Since birth they've been in a dress rehearsal for distress...
...first line of the book is, "I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood." Francis, I understand the publication caused you some distress...
...finding doesn't mean anyone should start sniffing exhaust fumes or light up to avoid the flu. But according to Dr. Warren M. Zapol, Jenney professor of anesthesia at Mass. General Hospital, nitric oxide can improve lung efficiency in patients suffering from Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS...
...orders for new aircraft. And just a week after industry leader American Airlines was forced to let go 576 of its managers, Delta chairman Ronald Allen conceded that layoffs and pay cuts may be necessary at his carrier too. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence of the industry's deepening distress is TWA's decision in effect to call in the cavalry. Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, who will retire at the end of this month from the company he once saved, is considering taking on the resurrection of TWA as his next big challenge...
What may have most roused the normally comatose Met audience was the production's feminist subtext. This Lucia is less a helpless damsel in distress than a strong, sexual woman who chooses death before dishonor -- Elektra's first cousin. Although she had some vocal difficulties on opening night (Donizetti's high notes are best not delivered while the soprano is on her knees or flat on her back), reigning bel canto diva June Anderson's forceful stage presence ensures that the heroine gives as good as she gets. Other notables include a promising American tenor, Richard Leech, as Lucia...