Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guard against unfair treatment of insurance claimants, an "outrage" law has evolved out of cases that have come up in California courts. Under it, an insurance company may be sued for additional damages when emotional distress is suffered by persons whose legitimate claims are sidetracked or turned down for "false or frivolous" reasons. Insurance companies naturally do not like the law, and now their worst fears have been confirmed. Last week a jury in Orange County awarded an outraged policyholder $710,000 in damages. It was by far the largest sum ever handed down under...
...mean to bother you, but I'm in distress...
President James Madison asked Congress for $50,000 to help Venezuelan earthquake victims, and U.S. aid to allies in distress has been consistent ever since. Tripp's main problem, predictably, is coping with "bureaucratic bog-down": he often negotiates personally with medical-supply stores to rent iron lungs, and last July he turned Sears, Roebuck & Co. into an Omar the Tentmaker to provide $1,800,000 worth of "Ted Williams Campers" for 100,000 Jordanians displaced by the Arab-Israeli war. Tripp is an avid outdoorsman and thus an aficionado of tent living by avocation...
Another experience, in West Virginia, was of a different nature. At a resort a young girl named Donna asked me to read her fortune. Her face in no way revealed her distress, but through her palm and in talking to her I learned that by age 15 she had already made five suicide attempts and was desperate for help and advice. We talked for over four hours, and I honestly doubt now that there will ever be a sixth attempt. In any event she decided to obtain psychiatric help. I am not trying to credit myself with a miraculous cure...
...nation's press egged them on with inflammatory stories and editorials. Last October the students once again took to the streets to protest Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's trip to Viet Nam. But if history repeated itself, the press did not. It reported the rioting with obvious distress and admonished the students to restrain themselves. Said Asahi, Japan's biggest daily: "The students have forgotten that a social movement will not get on the right track unless it is accepted by public opinion. This has resulted in excessive actions and in their becoming more and more isolated...