Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...abnormalities. An exercise tolerance test causes no pain. Results of laboratory tests are normal. Chest X rays and routine electrocardiograms give no indication of the disorder. Eventually, says Dr. Prinzmetal, "on repeated visits the suspicion grows that the patient's symptoms are of psychoneurotic origin." But since emotional distress does not provoke the viselike pains, tranquilizers and sedatives do not relieve them. Bewildered, the doctor may tell his patient to go home and rest, only to have him stricken again there...
...wife is bloodied by a bullyboy's stone. The most vicious pressure of all is applied against Lamar by a member of his own race, a Mr. Barton, who acts as a "blockbuster," attempting to spread panic among the whites in order to purchase their homes at distress prices and resell to Negroes at a fat profit. Before Peaceable Lane lives up to its ironic name, Matt, Lamar and the others lose more than property values, but gain something like a good conscience...
...path ten minutes too early, and Kaplow stood there ad-libbing about everything from Nixon's preconvention campaign to the January inaugural. When the Nixons finally appeared, both networks closed in on a TV sight not soon to be forgotten-Pat Nixon, her face a portrait of distress almost under control, struggling hopelessly to do the smiling job her husband was accomplishing with ease, showing a trace of terror when the unsolemn crowd interrupted Nixon to shout: "We want...
...than 70 per cent of Princeton students voted for Nixon and Lodge in a Princetonian poll, causing one anguished alumnus to visualize Princeton as a bastion of reaction in a world where "the radicalism of undergraduates is taken for granted." Meanwhile, an increasingly less subtle trend drew growls of distress from at least one senior, who wrote that "By constantly looking over her shoulder at Harvard and Yale, Princeton not only admits that she is a follower, but divests herself of the last vestiges of uniqueness." And indeed, a Harvard student suddenly shifted to Princeton would find himself very much...
...falling debris of social experiments that had proved unworkable or unconstitutional. There were the nudges from Keynes-minded economists who wanted to force-feed the economy back to health, spending when business was afraid to spend, becoming an employer when there was private unemployment. For an economy in distress, many of the shock treatments of yesterday have become the household remedies of today...