Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent letter to the New York Times, Karpovich and Alexander Kerensky, called for a general recognition by the American people of the plight of Russian emigres, and released an appeal which they had received from a group of refugees now in Europe...
...elbows end. As vice-president in charge of small loans, March finds it difficult and against his nature to insist on "bankers' collateral" on every loan he makes to ex-servicemen. Russell finds the sledding tough and believes that his sympathetic parents and girlfriend have only pity for his plight. Andrews runs into trouble--with a floozy boomtown bride, with his soda-jerk job, and with March's young daughter, played by Teresa Wright, with whom he falls in love. All this adds up to considerable difficulty, and it takes Goldwyn & Co. exactly 163 minutes of screen time to wind...
...readers were so taken by Mrs. Hunkle's foodless plight and her generosity that they sent her 400 pounds of eatables...
Indicative of the increasing concern of Americans over the plight of the homeless Jewish people of Europe is the growth of the Harvard Zionist Group within six months from a handful of students to a well-knit organization of over...
...plight of the smaller organizations-the Red Book, the Album, and dozens of other groups of similar size-is no better. The Student Council, probing the matter, is finding out what too many people have known for too long: there is no office space, no convenient meeting place, in short, no facilities at all to be had within the University. As a result, the smaller organizations presently scrape out bare existences, scurrying from Junior Common Room to Junior Common Room, and carrying on their office work in somebody-or-other's overcrowded...