Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Borch is in the United States as one of seven European students who are being sent throughout the country by the World Student Service Fund in an attempt to acquaint American students with the plight of the future leaders of Europe...
...concessions have been made to the bobby sox brigade. Johnson gets too cute at times, much to the brigade's delight, and the slapstick isn't always up to Shavian standards. But you don't have to be a bobby-soxer to enjoy Johnson's plight on his first duck-hunting trip, and constant adult laughter at the many good gags drowned out the most ambitious concerted squeals the soxers could muster last night...
...London the Daily Express, long rationed to four pages, shed a crocodile tear for the plight of New York's dailies, headlined its paragraph on the shortage: WE KNOW, FELLERS...
...organized labor received an unexpected reinforcement last week. A prostitutes' union formally announced its organization to the Supreme Command. The new union was made up of house girls, including many defrocked geishas, who had banded together to meet increasing competition from unhoused streetwalkers. Its formation highlighted the plight of womanless G.I.s, and of Japan's geishas, many of whom, as a result of the war and postwar conditions, have taken to prostitution...
Written in hot protest over the plight of Europe's homeless Jews, A Flag Is Born paints their present sufferings, relights their gorgeous Biblical past, lashes out at the "strong Jews, rich Jews, high-up Jews" who stood by in frightened silence, excoriates the British, breaks off on an inflammatory note of armed resistance...