Word: distraughtly
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...anyone who ever pulled a distraught Yalie from the very foundation of a post, to anyone who raced down on the field after seeing Harvard upset Army 22 to 21 there were more than four quarters in a football game, and the post game battle of the goal posts was sometimes as important and often as exciting as the 60 minutes just completed...
...existence. The Reds keep parroting, "No one in this country goes hungry." As bodies pile up in the streets, the bosses try to explain them away as caused by typhus and by neglecting "the elementary principles of hygiene." In the march-past of commissars, thieves, forced laborers, secret police, distraught mothers and sullen children there are few really absorbing villains, nor are there any heroes - or even very likable people. The book's impact, as well as its conviction, comes from the author's own involvement in the horrors of which he writes...
...democracies of the world to be strong and stay strong ... I plead with you ... to do the thing here today to preserve, protect, defend and perpetuate not only this, the greatest democracy that ever existed in all the tide of time, but the other democracies of this unhappy, this distraught and this dangerous world...
...West. The male dancers are strong and athletic, but they are rarely graceful and are seldom soloists. Among the ballerinas, Galina Ulanova is not absolutely assoluta. When on pointes, she moves so delicately that she seems to glide, but Ulanova indulges in plenty of cape-swishing and distraught breast-beating. When she sticks to her own soft type of dance movement, she is superb. In classical technique, she is as good as the best U.S. ballerinas, if not quite up to England's Margot Fonteyn...
...rooster, has a tabloid-moralistic habit of playing up any smirch involving a Milwaukeean. When the wife of a prominent businessman was caught by a pri vate detective in a hotel room with another man, the Journal front-paged the story: FOUND IN HOTEL WITH A FRIEND. Recently, a distraught Milwaukee housewife telephoned the city desk to beg the paper not to print the news that her husband had been arrested for being drunk and disorderly. "Lady," a Journal reporter told her, "I'm going to give you a break. I won't ask his name...