Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swam in it, fixed Soviet trade domination over it and turned the Danube conference into a thoroughfare for Soviet propaganda. He was able to steal the show because the Western powers missed a tailor-made chance to unfold point by point Russia's responsibility for the grave economic plight of her satellites...
This week, U.N. Palestine Mediator Count Bernadotte laid the refugees' plight before the Security Council, insisting that Israel take back the Arabs "despite the enormous difficulties." Israeli officials disagreed. As a struggling new nation on a war footing, they said, Israel could not afford large-scale relief projects. "Furthermore," said one, "the government won't organize a large enemy fifth column, which the return of some of these Arabs would obviously create . . . The ones who are pressing for their return are Arab states who . . . want to be rid of the economic and social problem they have created...
...thrillers, all of which have been made into profitable and pulse-racing movies. But, unlike other thrillers of the gut & gat school, his "entertainments," as he calls them (in contrast to his serious novels), are not just brisk episodes of irrelevant evil. They are haunted by a problem-the plight of the human soul benighted in the back alleys of evil. For in the thriller, Graham Greene has found a literary form capable of embodying not only the violence that characterizes modern life, but the insidious violence of the modern soul from which it springs...
...plight of Europe's displaced persons has of course been getting a great deal of attention-from Congress, from the press as a whole, from organizations, from individuals anxious to help. A pleasing indication of this interest is the response from TIME readers to the Zielezinski story. During the past few weeks a good many of you have written to TIME to ask how you can help displaced persons admitted to this country. For example...
That was why the Democrats had been unable to postpone the inevitable. Now they were in the unenviable plight of staking their chances on a candidate they had themselves publicly repudiated. Said ex-National Chairman Jim Farley: "I'm thoroughly disgusted with the attitude and actions of some of our leaders ... If they'd think a little more of the party and the country and a little less of their own personal position, the party would be in a position to wage an aggressive campaign." Harry Truman, who had handled himself with admirable restraint and good sense through...