Word: distressingly
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...joined another Huskie and an escort of American fighters that had picked up yet another urgent distress call-from a U.S. captain whose Thunderchief jet was shot down over the tangled jungle near Quangkhe. Sighting a signal fire that the captain had resourcefully lighted on the bank of a stream, one Huskie descended to 100 ft., hauled the captain into the chopper with a steel cable and winch. As he scrambled gratefully aboard, the rescued pilot cried to the crew, "I love you, I love...
...cope with the problem, the A.M.A. has urged the Federal Communications Commission to allot two citizens' band radio channels for the sole use of drivers in distress, whose calls for assistance would be monitored by highway patrol or sheriff's offices...
...alone." Then came a landmark article in the Harvard Law Review by two young Boston lawyers, Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis (the future Supreme Court justice). As they saw it, the modern press had become so snoopy that modern man was being subjected to "mental pain and distress far greater than could be inflicted by mere bodily injury." Their insistence on privacy as a new legal right became an outstanding example of legal scholarship influencing the courts...
...teacher, "we are aware that our students are not being prepared for the total fabric of life." A Roman Catholic school of 750 boys taught by an interracial faculty of 31 Josephite priests, an order dedicated to Negro mission work, St. Aug's is -to its own distress-segregated. It hopes that some day white boys will be willing to go to school at St. Aug's. In the meantime, says Father Eugene P. McManus, a math teacher: "We are trying to get first-class citizenship in graduate schools, colleges, the Catholic system. We want...
...four years ago. Then, during a routine checkup, Manhattan's Dr. Arthur Antenucci diagnosed an aneurysm that required watching. But it was too small at the time to justify the major surgery that would be involved in its removal. No special diet was needed, no drugs. How little distress the aneurysm caused the duke is shown by the fact that he was able to keep working steadily for most of this year on his movie, A King's Story...