Word: distressingly
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...condition that so aroused a President's concern has become the concern of an entire nation. Since his succession to the presidency, Lyndon Johnson has repeatedly limned the plight of those he has called, paraphrasing Disraeli, "that other nation within a nation-the poor-whose distress has not captured the conscience of America." Enthusiastically embracing the assault on poverty as "my kind of program," Johnson in his first State of the Union message pledged allegiance to those who "live on the outskirts of hope-some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many...
...played by Jean Marais. He has neither Batman's flair nor James Bond's cool, though he can easily look squarer than Superman. Passionate self-parody is Marais's gimmick, and he earns a snicker whenever he detours into the arms of that demoiselle-in-distress, Mylène Demongeot, at one point with such fervency that he seems about to fling himself out of a rising helicopter...
...Maiden Fair. The story takes place Far Away (south of France, north of Italy) and Long Ago (end of the 16th century). The heroine, a young Frenchwoman Of Gentle Birth named Emily St. Aubert, is a Damsel In Distress-Alone In the Cold Cruel World with only her Lofty Principles to guide her. She is beautiful and dutiful, weeps for 30 pages at a stretch, faints wherever the carpeting permits, seeks refuge from the "vices of the world" in the "beauties of nature and the nicer emotions of the mind." She sketches, plays the lute, offers helpful hints to harried...
...Revolution or not, the hormone replacement program that Dr. Wilson advocates is designed to deal with a process of nature. A woman's output of sex hormones, which come mainly from her ovaries, decreases with the menopause and nears zero as she nears 80. This would cause little distress if the only function of the hormones was to preserve her monthly cycle of ovulation and menstruation-it would simply mark the end of her fertility period. But some of the hormones, especially the estrogens, fill many other biological needs. They help to keep the breasts firm and the skin...
...virtually any hormone replacement. The authoritative and conservative Medical Letter grudgingly concedes that for women suffering the obvious and immediate discomforts of the menopause, estrogens are "relatively harmless" if given for only a few months, or a year or two at most, and may be helpful for emotional distress. But the Letter editors are still not sure that estrogens help to preserve a youthful complexion or guard against heart attacks, dowager's hump or broken bones...