Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sucked In. In Lodi, Calif., saddened by the plight of the fellows inside the local jail, outsider Jacob Hohnstein tried to spread a little cheer by siphoning in slugs of booze, got caught at it, became an insider himself...
...Britain's plight increased the apprehension over sagging exports. Alarmists like Texas' Representative Eugene Worley, former chairman of a congressional subcommittee on foreign trade, suggested banning British films in the U.S. Said Worley: "Today it is films, tomorrow it might be wheat, cotton or beef...
Survival v. Socialism. The men around the table could blame much, but by no means all, of Britain's plight on the war. They had bungled. They had never made up their minds whether they should give priority to housing or to food production. They had disastrously overestimated Britain's ability to export, underestimated her need for dollars. They had concentrated on their pet nationalization schemes instead of all-out production. They had fulfilled the long-standing Socialist promises of higher pay and shorter hours at a time when production costs needed to be lowered and workers needed...
...well as the '51 Freshman Red Book. As soon as an outcry arose at this unforeseen, crippling move, University officials stiffened, a hasty conference between Lehman and University Halls resulted in a hidden-ball play as to the responsibility, a throwing up of hands in friendly sympathy for the plight of the publications, and a host of reasons, both ethical and financial, for the now frozen decision...
Japan was one of the few countries in the world not seriously divided by the strife between Russia and the West. In almost all other respects, however, Japan's plight was almost as desperate as that of the rest of Asia. (see FOREIGN NEWS...