Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boats. Many of them, of course, have become experts at the game, and even the neophytes usually get home in one piece. The water, contrary to legend, is more forgiving than, say, the thin air or a concrete abutment. Even so, the Coast Guard responded to 43,000 "Mayday"* distress calls last year, the vast majority of them from power-boatmen, who also accounted for 875 of the 1,312 deaths on the water...
...have listened with increasing distress over the past several months to the pollyannish placidity of the pronouncements by our government leaders and members of the "intellectual" establishment to the effect that the nature of Communism has changed and mellowed, that the Soviets wouldn't dare interfere in the Czechoslovak experiment with freedom...
...Cannes, usually came to view its medieval ruins-a chateau, a church, towers and gates that had decayed into an exquisite stone latticework. In 1961, Bargème found a benefactress-or rather, Madame Germaine De Maria, now 56, found Bargème. Their relationship has led to more distress than Bargème has known in several centuries...
...Naval Institute Proceedings titled "The Depths of Ignorance," dealing with the hypothetical stranding of a nuclear sub on a seamount in mid-Pacific, argues that the Navy not only has insufficient bathymetric data on bottoms in all oceans but lacks adequate communication and rescue devices for subs in distress as well. Scorpion, like more than 70 of her sisters in the U.S. nuclear-sub fleet, carried only two buoys mounted on cables fore and aft to mark her position in the event of disaster, plus a handful of flares that must be fired to the surface and a pair...
...pound plummeted to its lowest post-devaluation level, and King was widely criticized by politicians and press alike. Among the most mortified were some of the members of the Mirror group's board of directors who belong to the Labor Party and still support Wilson. Adding to their distress was the fact that King rarely took the trouble to consult them on important matters. Moreover, profits declined somewhat last year, taking some of the gloss off the years of heady expansion under King. Last week, at a secret meeting presided over by Cudlipp, the board voted unanimously to sack...