Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lashed to the rigging, scanning the horizon. Then, early on October 1 they spied a vessel steering southwest through the high running sea. Closer and closer it came, finally hove to less than a mile off. Frantic, the wrecked sailors waved their jackets, made out men sizing up their plight from the newcomer's bridge. On her bows they could see illegible characters and the familiar word Maru,* which all Japanese ships bear. Then this Maru steamed away toward Europe...
...Maru means circle, is traditionally suffixed to the names of Japanese merchant ships for .good luck. Only Japanese merchant line in scheduled transatlantic commerce is the round-the-world Osaka Shosen Kabushiki Kaisha, which at the time of the Pioneer's, plight had no ship in her vicinity. Best guess was that the offender was one of innumerable tramps that make Japan the world's third largest shipping nation...
...their plight, both Germany and Czechoslovakia were responsible. Booted from Sudetenland by Nazi Storm Troopers who came in the wake of the German Army, the starving, penniless refugees were refused admission to Czechoslovakia ostensibly because they were technically citizens of Germany, actually because Czechoslovakia has no wish for refugees who cannot support themselves...
South of Brno, 150 Jews were in the same plight. Smaller groups, many stricken with influenza, dotted the area. Carloads of food sent by Prague sympathizers were turned back at Czech Army lines. One refugee, a Breclav physician, went insane. Czech and German passersby, crossing the no-man's-land, defied the authorities and tossed into the ditches what food they could sneak through...
...territory are homeless, destitute, and hungry. Already the ravages of disease due to malnutrition have begun to appear. It is reported that at least 4,000 cases of pellagra have developed in Madrid alone. The Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy is doing what it can to mitigate the plight of these innocent victims of the war. Dr. Miller, as a humane physician, surely does not protest against that effort...