Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maestro Benny Goodman, the daddy of big band swing, summed up the plight of his fellow noisemakers: "The trouble is that they just play too damn loud. A guy who is good doesn't have to worry about trends...
...being sold far above the average Chinese's means. UNRRA Ford trucks were selling at $3,750 (gold). The Chinese people, starving almost within the dreamlike sight of rich rice and yellow wheat, hardly protested: they were too accustomed to inefficiency and graft. Nevertheless, dawning anger at their plight came like thunder out of China last week. Over 200 local UNRRA officials sent a cable to their boss in Washington: "We have come from many places in the world [to make] UNRRA's goal a reality [but] it is our considered judgment that UNRRA supplies and services...
When Zionists joined the pressure groups urging Congress to kill the loan, it was clear that the Palestine issue had grown out of all perspective. Beyond the violence in Palestine, beyond even the plight of Europe's remaining million and a half Jews, were some past & present facts and some future probabilities which called for calm examination...
...crowning irrelevancy came from the Government of India itself, which presented charges to the United Nations against South Africa's racial-discrimination laws covering Indian nationals. The Indian evidence against South Africa was strong enough, but the plight of 250,000 Indians in South Africa was scarcely as important last week as the plight of 389,000,000 Indians in India, who, instead of standing happily on the threshold of independence, were faced with famine and a growing chance of political chaos...
...Kuomintang, liberal elements -men unhappily without much power-are starting to demand changes. Founder Sun Yat-sen's scholarly son, Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan, asked Premier T. V. Soong this week to attend the Legislative Yuan's meeting and answer questions on the economic plight of China. T. V. didn't show...