Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lecture tour 16 years later, when the chance came for another African "rescue." Emin Pasha, the German-born Governor of the Equatorial province, had fled to the hills after the fall of Khartoum. In England there was immense popular sympathy with his plight, and money was collected to rescue him. Stanley cut short his lecture tour to lead the expedition. His two-volume description of the epic journey was In Darkest Africa. Author Manning's less solemn account of it, based on other documents as well as Stanley's, trims its hero to life size...
...above using "what we called the 'squeeze play' to get additional funds." Hopkins and his deputies "would wait until the last minute before letting Bell and me know they were overspending, then they would appeal to our emotions by reminding us of the plight of the jobless...
...banker control" of Central. How? asked ICC. "Why," said Young in surprise, "our very presence would relieve it." If he liked the girl enough, after going with her eight or nine years, said Young, he might later marry her by unifying the two roads. He painted the sad plight of Central, "the finest railroad property in the richest country in the world . . . being kicked around in The Street for virtually 10? on the dollar...
...found his preoccupations morbid. The stories assembled in this volume, and the longer novels, Victory, Nostromo and Under Western Eyes, make both these accusations seem as irrelevant as the "dating" of Conrad's work. Neither time nor fashion really affects its nature, which is Sophoclean and tragic: "The plight of the man on whom life closes down...
...typical plight among the Annex inhabitants was that of Stanley Gizlenski, who registered for the Graduate School of Engineering on September 13, the same day he was discharged from the Army. He cannot find an apartment for his family and, since he has spent the last 37 months in Europe, he is anxious to get out of the Annex and start a home...