Word: distressingly
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...many blacks, for example, the 50 stars have come to signify so many stations of racism. To the poor, to disaffected minorities, to antiwar demonstrators, the pledge is the reverse of truth (one nation divisible, with liberty and justice for some). To them, the flag sometimes seems a distress signal, a pennant of aggression and ill-used power. The more militant have responded to it with the conditioned reflex of rage, flying the Stars and Stripes upside down from the Statue of Liberty or setting it aflame. In reaction to this lack of respect, the "100% Americans" and just plain...
...suit, angered by the firings and by the Administration's steadfast refusal to speak to reporters. (A year later, The Crimson would editorially express pleased surprise at the fact that Mr. Lowell had agreed to talk to reporters about his House Plan.) In fact, although The Crimson repeatedly expressed distress over the dismissals, it always managed to seem a bit more concerned over the University's image than the future of the women involved. In March, when ex-Crimson editor Corliss Lamont '24 announced the formation of an alumni committee to raise several thousand dollars worth of back wages owed...
...York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Lawrence Gartner, director of the division of neo-natality, has found that methadone babies are generally less healthy than heroin babies, and are born with a greater incidence of respiratory distress and jaundice. "Their symptoms of withdrawal last longer and worsen progressively," he says. Gartner has recently discovered a rare and particularly ominous methadone problem. Five babies born at the college's affiliate, Abraham Jacobi Hospital, showed no withdrawal signs until between two and three weeks after birth, by which time the infant is usually away from constant medical...
...significant change. Truman's idea of a holiday was to spend a week in the VIP quarters at the Key West naval base and do a little fishing. He still took his early-morning walks (at the military quicktime pace of 120 steps a minute), to the distress of Secret Service men and reporters trying to stay awake and keep up with him. When a Washington critic said some unpleasant things about the singing talent of his daughter Margaret ("my baby"), he dashed off a letter which said, in part: "I have just finished reading your lousy review...
...lives in isolation, avoiding the press as much as possible as he moves from Camp David to Key Biscayne to San Clemente, reveling in the privacy that those retreats provide him. He treats Congress as an entity to be ignored or an obstacle to be surmounted, often to the distress of its members even in his own party. Although the Administration during the campaign observed a moratorium in its vendetta with the press, it has now begun a calculated drive to frighten the TV networks into more "balanced" coverage (see TELEVISION...