Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More specific was the charge of Dr. Elizabeth Gourlay, a London school doctor. Said she: "We have never had so many multiple boils, sores, rashes and scurvy. . . . With regard to vitamin C, we have been reduced to an almost 18th-Century plight...
...Orient, scuttled this hope. After jeeping through the Malay peninsula, TIME Correspondent John Luter reported: no hidden stocks of tin, and no mine would operate for months to come. The Japs had looted the bulk of the engineering tools, flooded the mines, left destruction and decay behind them. The plight of the tin mines was far worse than that of the rubber plantations, which had been comparatively unharmed...
...Worse Plight. Reasons for the erratic performance of the Army's demobilization machine were manifold. Spurred by public and Congress, disturbed by the outcries of G.I.s, the Army had demobilized faster than it had wanted to. Neither Selective Service nor enlistments had supplied men fast enough to fill the holes...
...Army's problems will not get any simpler. The Selective Service Act expires May 15. Unless Congress,'now in a mind to repeal the act, votes instead to renew and strengthen it, by next spring the Army will be in a worse plight...
...Relative Matter. Yet Germany's plight had been caused primarily not by the peace the world had imposed on Germany, but by the war Germany had imposed on the world. Not Germans alone, but most Europeans, were cold and hungry this postwar winter. Nevertheless, there was much talk that Germans would starve. The talk centered about three different (and often confused) living standards set up for Germany...