Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After brooding about Europe's plight, John Hawkins, 39, a Manhattan hansom cabbie, donned a surgeon's gown, led his horse, Sunshine, to the basement of a livery stable, stunned the animal with a hammer blow, and set about carving up the carcass. When Hawkins' project to send meat to Europe was interrupted by police, he explained: "With the coming of winter, I was convinced that thousands would...
...that, therefore, his listeners had better change sides and submit. This was often terrible to hear, for the news in the papers confirmed it. He was not only alarming, he was ugly; he opened a vista into a mean life. . . . He went further than that smug mockery of our plight. He sinned that sin which is the dark travesty of legitimate hatred . . . just as incest is the dark travesty of legitimate love...
...financial plight of the University band will also come before the Council tonight, W. Jay Skinner '48, manager of the band, disclosed last week. Presentation of the band's problem to the Council is part of a band bid for HAA funds to defray travelling expenses...
...added that the band's plight has also been communicated to the Alumni Bulletin and to Ralph Lowell '12, president of the Associated Harvard Clubs...
...should be obvious that you are reporting on the state of the world in picture as well as in type. ... In your . . . letters to the editor [TIME, Oct. 6] you note the sorry plight of Britain's Prime Minister, who is going in one direction while his hat travels in another...