Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French just do not know what action in either sphere is going to be. Such indications as they have only intensify their misgivings, which approach desperation. . . . Neither in London nor in Washington, to judge by all evidence available here, is there anything like an adequate appreciation of the plight of France...
Another Simpson-baffling decision arose from the plight of a wealthy widow whose friends warned her not to marry a man because he was after her money. She was lonely and willing to take a chance, but the jury said no (7-to-5). An answer of no (9-to-3) was also given to a wife who could not decide whether to take her husband back after a long term in prison because their children did not know about his record...
What I cannot understand is why you, with information at your disposal, failed to advise your readers of the desperate plight of our garrison stationed in Manila. If the powers at Washington did not see fit to send them reinforcements, we, the citizens of these United States, should have been advised the reason why. I cannot give utterance to my feelings of shame and degradation in realizing that we did so little to save these desperate and brave...
Kesselring's Plight. Blocking of Via Casilina would mean that the Germans could retire only on the road north from Arce through Sora, and on the secondary road north from Frosinone. But both routes had a big drawback: they did not lead straight to Rome...
...know either. Many of them think they are insane or soon will be. So do family and neighbors who look askance, and employers who sometimes refuse jobs. (Last week the Army changed its N-P stamp to read "Unsuited for military service.") Because few NPs discuss their plight, few people realize how many there...