Word: distress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Previously, U.S. warships have only been permitted to provide "humanitaran aid" to non-American ships in distress and requesting aid, but not to intercede in armed conflict involving those ships...
...himself with Hannibal of Carthage. Freud the founder of the new "mind science" continually sought to assert his authority over associates, nearly all of them Jews. His colleagues appear to have been a touchy lot. Minor disputes frequently ended in nasty breakups and castings- out. But Freud's greatest distress came in dealing with Carl Jung, the son of a Swiss pastor, whose differences with his Viennese teacher had origins in the varying perspectives of Christianity and Judaism. Gay describes two meetings with Jung at which Freud fainted...
Walters claims that two Facilities Maintenance supervisors caused her emotional distress through "insensitive" behavior and lenient handling of a co-worker who harassed...
This last claim was the only one before the jury, which awarded Walters $75,000 in compensation for emotional and mental distress...
This contretemps calls for a bit of explaining, and Garcia Marquez flashes backward to tell all. A half-century of solitude earlier, Florentino enjoys a passionate, three-year romance with the schoolgirl Fermina, conducted entirely through the exchange of clandestine letters. His swooning preoccupation and physical distress arouse concern: "His mother was terrified because his condition did not resemble the turmoil of love so much as the devastation of cholera." But it is love, all right, and Florentino's symptoms grow worse when Fermina abruptly tosses him aside and later weds Dr. Urbino, the scion of an illustrious though fading...