Word: distressingly
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...water supply is (if it runs out, it runs out; your ultimate endurance is not ensured by rationing it); rest in the shade through the heat of the day, travel only by night; keep your clothes on to minimize loss of body moisture through sweating; devise some sort of distress signal to attract attention from...
...temperature was 124°. With something like a genius for self-preservation, the Scotts drank the water from their car radiator, cut up blankets to make an S O S sign, dipped a tire in engine oil to serve as a signal fire, dismounted the car mirror to flash distress signals at passing planes, set out their hubcaps to catch the morning dew. They smeared lipstick on sunburn blisters and swollen lips, discovered some wax crayons and a pot of glue (made from milk products) among their luggage and fed them to the children. They cooled their faces with urine...
Double Dip. Samantha's distress kept pace with her role; her shadows darkened as the heroine wasted away. Verisimilitude was everything. Wyler even insisted that the two nude scenes be played entirely in the buff, and one of them, a bathtub scene, was shot and reshot for five hours. For conventraised Samantha, it was this very embarrassment that gave veracity to her fumbling, desperate efforts to seduce her captor-which was precisely the effect Wyler wanted. "Looking back," Samantha admits, "I must say it made sense; it was valid...
...managed to make it unsteadily through the-first four courses, but felt, as dessert was carried on, that if he consumed a single morsel more he would surely lose his entire dinner. He was in a quandry. But meanwhile the chief, a kindly old fellow, had observed Thun's distress and, knowing this particular bear 's fur glasse to be an unusually strong preparation, he leaned over and chanted in Thun...
...skirts fly. See the gallant gentlemen help the poor damsels in distress regain control of their runaway steeds. Come to the annual Harvard-Wellesley Bike Race, taking off from the Soldiers Field gate at 2 p.m. Sunday. The prize: no, not the fox's tail, but a Peugeot racing bicycle, compliments of the Bicycle Exchange...