Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British policeman who had taken it upon himself to keep the advance party alive. For five weeks they had received no official food, could buy no food from nearby Jewish shops which had none to spare, or from the Arabs who have boycotted the U.N. representatives. Their plight was a measure of U.N.'s ineffectiveness in Palestine...
...this" mediocrity, not the counsels of Mr. Truman's advisers, that is primarily responsible for the plight in which the President now finds himself. Mr. Truman himself sincerely thought that he could walk down the middle of the road, being pleasant to all he met on the way. But how wide is the middle of the road, in an election year? Not wide enough, apparently, for all the factions of the Democratic Party, which seemed to be heading toward the ditch...
...eager to bring in electric current. They can't afford both in the same year. Grandfather yields to the women; and when he dies, that fall, the house is still unmended. This little conflict between fundamental repair and labor-saving technology becomes a powerful, compassionate image of the plight of modern...
...planned to make them an instrument of world reform. Arrested again, imprisoned in the gloomy fortress at Vincennes, he was, at 28, ruined, his health destroyed, his mind preserved only by the works he wrote (14 or 15 hours a day) so as to keep from brooding on his plight...
Pinings. But beneath the smooth, light surfaces of these stories there is a highly moral awareness of the inadequacies of contemporary life and the yearnings in every man for something better. When mocking the plight of a shopkeeper sentimentalist whose notions of marriage have been shaped by Romeo and Juliet but whose experience of it has been soured by a frigid, all too high-minded wife, O'Connor redeems the character from mere ridiculousness by noting that "he knew he could never be like any other sensible man, but would keep on to the day he died, pining...