Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after Hero Untiedt's plight was revealed in Denver newspapers he was rescued-not by one of his former schoolmates but by Denver's 87-year-old Lawyer A. L. Doud, who wired $7 to pay the remainder of his fine...
Last week U. S. school superintendents spoke sharply not to but for Youth. After spending two years studying the plight of the 20,000,000 U. S. youngsters between 15 and 24, a commission* found Youth more sinned against than sinning. Their report, in Youth Education Today, the superintendents' yearbook, tried to tell the U. S. what it ought to do about Youth's troubles...
...Moscow, perpetually astounded Correspondent Walter Duranty experienced spasms of amazement at the diffident manner in which the drama was handled in the Soviet press. Cabled he: "Today each Moscow newspaper gives their plight 66 lines of print in a brief double column with a bald single headline. 'On Drifting Station of Comrade Ivan Papanin.' Can you beat...
...altogether successful, the device enables Commander Ellsberg to put hackneyed remarks in the mouths of the characters that rob the book of authority without making its people seem any more real. Not by means of stale jokes cracked by the doomed, but by the simple facts of their plight do readers gain a sense of the tragedy of the Jeannette...
...lamentable . . . for the sake of the rest of Asia as a whole, as well as for the people of China" that the Chinese Government of Generalissimo Chiang have been "unable to act wisely and well with calm judgment but . . . are even now calling for prolonged resistance, regardless of the plight of 400 million people of China, whom they have plunged into the depths of suffering and misery...