Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never a violent abolitionist, and many biographers claim that his proclamation of freedom during the Civil War was just a political move. I do think, however, that though he was not one of the violent pre war abolitionists that he really pitted the plight of the slaves and that he welcomed the chance to free them during...
...advice. ... I am 58 years old . . . out of work . . . have an illness that I believe to be incurable. . . . Those of you who have knife-edge pains shooting through you continually, who are unable to eat regularly, who cannot take walks or go to the shows, will understand my plight. . . . Suicide would be preferable to my present lot. . . . What shall...
...told him to blame "our system of government" for his plight...
...best I could," wept Mrs. Brown. ". . . We fed them every week or so." Their lawyer said later they were really David and Eleanor Goldshur: he a philosophy instructor at San Francisco Junior College, she a student of psychology. Mr. Goldshur disclaimed any knowledge of the dogs' plight; Mrs. Goldshur explained that she was interested in "animal mass behaviorism.'' Officer Girolo said that dogs have to be "damned hungry" before they resort to cannibalism...
Courses are getting too easy and the university is in a sad plight. Let us by all means have our Chuang Tzu, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, and Po Chu-i unadulterated. With respectful kowtow, John...