Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slate roofing. Allied dependents had taken over 6,000 of the best Western-style houses. But Japanese still respected the authority of their conquerors. Most blamed their pitiable condition on their own Government; few save the Communists held General MacArthur or the Emperor responsible for their plight...
...plight of unmarried student veterans must not be too summarily dismissed. Relatively few veterans now at Harvard are in immediate danger of dropping out of College because of financial difficulties. The Counsellor for Veterans and the Committee on Admission adopted a cautiously wise policy of letting no one come to Harvard who could not present a reasonable plan for covering the difference between his government allowance and the cost of a Harvard education. The only students hard hit by the price rise, therefore, are those who have been just barely scraping along all the time...
Archbishop John, whose mahogany-colored beard is as silky and flowing as Victor's is square cut and bristly, took the Christian view of his rival's plight. Said he: "Archbishop Victor is a good man, well known for his charity and his love of the people. All members of the Church regret the misfortune that has befallen him, and we shall pray for his early release...
...years of life as an immigrant, dictated by himself, set down by his wife, Helen. Today, Helen runs the Moby Dick Bookshop in Allentown, Pa., and George spends "part of each day at a granite quarry working on an animal figure he designed to commemorate the plight of the world during the darkest days of the German advance...
...months I have been reading in TIME, LIFE and other periodicals the sad plight of the 52-20 boys, the miserable scraping that the college-goers must do to stay in college, the horrible handicaps.of the amputees. But I have searched column after column ... for just one tiny mention of the one hundred percenters. Not one damned word have I found...