Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Toys in the Attic. A weak man suddenly gains the strength of money, to the distress of his wife and sisters, who preferred him weak. Lillian Hellman's play is excellently brought to life by Jason Robards Jr., Maureen Stapleton, Anne Revere...
With an edge of anger in his voice, Kennedy told his audiences that the "real issue" in West Virginia was economic distress, "not where I go to church on Sunday." In Fairmont he rumbled that "one of the issues of this campaign is my religion. I don't think it's anyone's business but my business ... Is anyone going to tell me that I lost this primary 42 years ago on the day I was baptized...
Illinois' Liberal Democrat Paul Douglas, in his distress over the supposed inadequacies of the bill, turned for solace to T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men: "This is the way the world ends-Not with a bang but a whimper." And Pennsylvania's Democratic Joe Clark outdid all the melodrama by telling how he had surrendered his "sword" to the South's chief strategist, Richard Russell of Georgia. "Surely," cried Joe Clark, "the roles of Grant and Lee at Appomattox have been reversed." And then Clark wound up with a touching recital of four stanzas from...
Flanked by Indonesia's peripatetic President Sukarno, Kassem watched from a special reviewing platform, but the crowd was not so large as in the Partisans' parade a year ago. In open distress, the Communist-line newspaper Al-Hadhara beseeched Kassem for support: "A few words from you will set everything right again." A year ago, the Communists would not have...
...from its moorings in the Russian-held Kurile Islands, north of Japan, and driven it out to sea. The four aboard had been unable to catch any fish, made no attempt to trap sea birds, failed to maintain a system of regular watches or to develop a distress signal to attract passing ships (three passed on the horizon without seeing them). Even worse, they had apparently made no attempt to ration their food and had eaten it all in the first 16 days. But the ultimate test of survival technique is to survive, and on that basis, the Russians made...