Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program a kind of U.S. imperialism? Those Americans made uncomfortable by this word might have to find another word which did not distress them so much. For the U.S. was in a world divided between two great antagonists. Communist imperialism must be contained. U.S. influence must expand to contain it; otherwise the U.S. might be engulfed...
...block long at the door of the Civil Aeronautics Board last week, wailing for fast first aid. Mostly, they wanted higher mail rates, higher passenger fares. (A notable exception was Eastern Air Lines, which asked CAB to approve a 10% reduction in its round-trip fares.) Some, in acute distress, had special problems. In fact, there were suddenly so many special problems that many an airman began to wonder: How well had CAB done its big job of supervising the airlines...
...Buffalo Evening News cried that the calling of the strike marked a "day of infamy," and Mayor Bernard J. Dowd denounced the "open revolt against the Government." Leftwingers joyfully applauded the teachers' "militancy." All such talk seemed to distress the teachers. They disliked even the word "strike," and they tried to duck the whole issue by calling it an "abstention from work." ("Strike," explained one teacher primly, "has an ugly connotation...
...armed forces at over a million men. Many (including the Communists) had urged Britain to abandon her commitments in Greece, Palestine and elsewhere, and to cut her Army to the bone. The Times of London replied: "A nation which lives by overseas trade and which, however grievous its present distress, yet possesses and controls much that is enviable cannot afford remedies of this kind...
...beautiful. ... It is a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see; where seekers and learners alike, banded together in the search for knowledge, will honor thought in all its finer ways, will welcome thinkers in distress or in exile, will uphold ever the dignity of thought and learning, and will exact standards in these things...