Word: distress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Menningers feel that every psychiatrist should himself have had some kind of psychological distress; otherwise, he might have "a kind of character rigidity" that would make it difficult for him to understand his patients' troubles. Facetious skeptics suspect that psychiatrists are themselves psychiatric cases...
...heard to say, even in a Hollywood film : 'Lead the paper with Himmelfarber's story-he's a Sigma Sigma from the Wingding School of Mines! I understand the Tau Taus were after him too.' And . . . who ever heard of a fraternity man, even with distress signals flying, beating out a son-in-law for a fat job in the family business...
...shopping buggies that have space for both packages and babies. In keeping with their original general-store idea, the Leonards try to stock their counters with so great a variety that there is sure to be something in the store for everybody. Old hands at buying (and selling) "distress merchandise," they once bought eleven carloads of "surplus white enamel iron mosquito bars, converted them into wartime-scarce towel racks, and sold the whole caboodle at a nice profit...
Marriage in Distress (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). A full-hour documentary on what is happening to the U.S. family in a changing society...
...Washington, Federal Communications Commission agents tracked down two teen-agers who had been sending false radio distress signals over airplane frequencies, once had ten planes and four crash boats out looking for a fictitious ditched plane...