Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complicating both economic and political crises was the crisis of socialism highlighted by the plight of the British Labor Party. How could a government ruling in the name of the working class compel workers to work? How could a minority of the nation force the whole nation to accept the regimentation inseparable from planning? Communists, realistic and ruthless, had answered: by the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, which in reality meant the dictatorship of the secret police. Socialists, well-intentioned and opportunistic, had evaded this problem in theory; now, in practice, history had brought them face to face with...
Tears of sympathy need not be shed for the plight of the misunderstood and isolated Russians. Fat has dealt them one of the strongest hands at the international poker table. If they choose to play with a blatant disregard for the best established principles of Dale Carnegic, they should not expect that the other participants will smilingly throw in their hands. At the same time, any talk of reorganizing the U.N. without Russian membership is decidedly unrealistic. The U.N. without Russia would meet the same disaster that befell the League of Nations without the United States. The important issues...
When "Big Doctor," as the Indians call him, arrived at Ganado on the Navajo reservation in 1927, after twelve years of missionary doctoring in China, he found the Navajos in a "far sorrier plight than the Chinese." Typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis were rampant, and tribal medicine men were about the only "doctors" the Navajos had. Dr. Salsbury got the Presbyterian Board of Missions to build him a two-story stone hospital. He and his wife drove out over the rough wagon trails to drum up trade...
Sidelines. The industry's plight was no secret. Instead of the 30 million pounds of airframe (about 3,000 planes) estimated in 1945 as the minimum necessary to keep aircraft factories alive, U.S. planemakers are operating at an annual rate of only 20 million pounds. The armed services, which had hoped for between 2,500 and 3,500 new planes a year, have been cut by Congress to about 1,400-barely enough to keep six plants going...
...could be stirred to a passion of loyalty at a hint that our college . . . was not the best in the world." His chapters on New Haven in the early 1900s explore the functions of the college, where, by his estimate, little education was given or gained, and the plight of the faculty which "never, so far as we know, got drunk, swore, fornicated, swindled, never did anything except lie, play politics and be mean...