Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...quite - wastes away. The wife of a Swiss delicatessen-keeper takes a shine to a young man about to be called back to the army of his native land. Her husband eventually suspects the worst, but it really hasn't happened. The young man - to the distress of the wife - has been in love with someone else all the time...
These counsels were reflected in the field. The Japanese drastically shortened lines and weakened garrisons in China, at the cost of much face and the risk of future distress. In the extreme southwest, they burned and evacuated Nanning. and. fighting off harassing Chinese troops, retired from Yunnan and Kwangsi Provinces to Hainan Island, springboard for projected drives westward to the rest of Indo-China, southward at Dutch islands, eastward at Hong Kong. The Chinese claimed that in the eleven months since the Japanese took Nanning, they had lost 74,000 men by sickness and siege. The Japanese claimed that...
Lucien Brouha of the Department of Physiology spoke at the same meeting on the distress in Belgium because of the scarcity of food. Before the war 40% of the food consumed by the Low Countries was imported, he state, but much of this was unecessary due to over eating...
...Donated ?1,000 ($4,000) to the Lord Mayor's London Air Raid Distress Fund...
...trainloads of provisions, paying for them with 1,000,000,000 francs worth of "bonds." To French hopes that at least some of the confiscated goods would be returned, the Nazi welfare authorities replied: "It is not the conqueror's business to relieve the world misery and distress caused by the fault of the vanquished...