Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy is making his supreme effort to break out of the desperate plight into which you forced him by your brilliant victories of the summer and fall...
More Allied supplies were flowing into Burma last week than ever before-more than twice as much as a year ago. Result: the Japanese were in retreat. A local success could not dispel the gloom over China's plight (see above), but it did demonstrate that when U.S.-trained Chinese troops got the tools, they knew...
...cook's apprentice, now boss of the French Communists, echoed Pravda: "There are some hundreds of people in France who must be shot and some thousands who must be removed from their posts. By creating delays, some émigrés in the Government . . . risk falling into the plight of the Belgian Government, whose émigrés also learned nothing. The Pierlot Government ... is doomed sooner or later by prostituting itself and calling on foreign aid against the people...
Well might Karolyi wonder. For he had played no small part in Hungary's present plight. After World War I, he had become Hungary's premier and first president. He began by giving away his estates (value: $15,000,000). He ended by giving away his Government...
Nevertheless the momentum of war was so inexorably against them that their plight was worse than ever. The air offensive against the Reich was stepping up to new levels of destruction; the Luftwaffe could challenge only at intervals, and every time it did, it got its ears pinned back. On one flaming day of battle last week the German air force lost 208 planes...