Word: distressingly
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LITTLE warning flags are going up all over. Semaphoric signals of distress. In America the warning signs are being manufactured daily; artifacts which if interpreted correctly tell the whole story: The ship is going down. Not torpedoed, but sunk on purpose by the crazy crew...
...guard against unfair treatment of insurance claimants, an "outrage" law has evolved out of cases that have come up in California courts. Under it, an insurance company may be sued for additional damages when emotional distress is suffered by persons whose legitimate claims are sidetracked or turned down for "false or frivolous" reasons. Insurance companies naturally do not like the law, and now their worst fears have been confirmed. Last week a jury in Orange County awarded an outraged policyholder $710,000 in damages. It was by far the largest sum ever handed down under...
...mean to bother you, but I'm in distress...
President James Madison asked Congress for $50,000 to help Venezuelan earthquake victims, and U.S. aid to allies in distress has been consistent ever since. Tripp's main problem, predictably, is coping with "bureaucratic bog-down": he often negotiates personally with medical-supply stores to rent iron lungs, and last July he turned Sears, Roebuck & Co. into an Omar the Tentmaker to provide $1,800,000 worth of "Ted Williams Campers" for 100,000 Jordanians displaced by the Arab-Israeli war. Tripp is an avid outdoorsman and thus an aficionado of tent living by avocation...
Another experience, in West Virginia, was of a different nature. At a resort a young girl named Donna asked me to read her fortune. Her face in no way revealed her distress, but through her palm and in talking to her I learned that by age 15 she had already made five suicide attempts and was desperate for help and advice. We talked for over four hours, and I honestly doubt now that there will ever be a sixth attempt. In any event she decided to obtain psychiatric help. I am not trying to credit myself with a miraculous cure...