Word: distraught
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amanda's mood swings precariously from the incomprehension of the distraught mother to the glee of the spooning debutante and Ames swings with her. Frustration and her anger singe the air as she peels her gloves commando-like, strutting lost in her own home, crying "Deception" at her daughter Laura, who has dropped out of secretarial school without posting notice. And her shivering silence after a bitter fight with her dreamer son, Tom, is wonderfully moving...
...three British members of an NBC television crew were arrested near the embassy, but were quickly released. On another occasion, a deeply distraught American woman, apparently the relative of a hostage, appeared at the gates with a child in hand. She suddenly began to shout obscenities at the guards. In an instant the mob started to surge toward her, but photographers provided a distraction, and in the confusion she was quickly led away. Behind her, the crowd kept murmuring, "Kill her, kill her." Said a Western diplomat: "The crowd now represents a 'third force,' and it has to be reckoned...
Though Pekkanen admits that a list of 2,500 (out of more than 400,000 physicians in the nation) omits many of the best, bruised egos abound. Ignored doctors have sent Pekkanen their multipage résumés, and the distraught wife of one physician forwarded even more convincing evidence of her husband's merit: a photograph of him with Merv Griffin...
...photographers are fighting for space on. The truck and one of the nine press buses will join the motorcade. The rest of us will go right to the Common. A small army of state police and cars stands guard. It's raining harder. The photographers in the back look distraught...
...protect Brzezinski against his own large insecurities. "It's not personal, it's institutional," maintained the Secretary. "It will be a terrible blow for the State Department." Mondale tried to be the peacemaker. The group stayed up until 3 o'clock in the morning with the distraught Vance refusing to budge. Strauss periodically left the room while Jordan and Mondale tried to persuade the Secretary to see it the President's way. Vance, as ever the loyal compromiser, finally went along. "He was humiliated by it," said one close friend who knew Vance's private...