Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life, but we, the greatest Protestant denomination in this nation, cannot officially join in the struggle. I do not forget that there was another occasion when a Roman Government official washed his hands of a dark and dirty business. . . . We have spent more time calling attention to the plight of 600 Methodist conscientious objectors than we have to twice that many crosses over dead Methodist boys in the far-flung corners of this earth...
...right is Radio Starlet Florida Edwards, who won an $8,180 judgment against the Hollywood Canteen for an injury to her coccyx, suffered while dancing with a "jive-maddened" Marine. Her plight inspired Los Angeles Superior Judge Henry M. Willis to a judicial definition of "jitterbug." Said he: "The word bug is defined ... as a crazy person. The word jitter means extreme nervousness. This combination, therefore, approaches the description of one witness who said the jitterbug dance was crazy...
...Canadian won a medal for explaining the "painful plight" of Canadian letters. The Canadian Authors' Association adjudged Toronto-born Edward Killoran Brown's On Canadian Poetry the best academic nonfiction work of 1943 by a Canadian, awarded him the annual Governor-General's medal...
...grave robbery substitutes drawling charm for the rawboned, murderous innocence of the frontier. A pretty Indian girl (Linda Darnell) teaches Bill Cody how to write a presentable letter to his pretty Eastern bride-to-be (Maureen O'Hara). Likewise prettily, in a coy ritual with a blanket, they plight their troth. When Bill and his wife break up there is no hint of the fact that he was quite a bronco buster with the ladies, nor does he follow history by accusing his wife of trying to poison him. Notably absent from the picture are his great, mad friend...
This description of the plight of German soldiers came not from Russian sources but from a Nazi correspondent, for Herr Goebbels has apparently decided that the best way to toughen German citizens is to scare them stiff. The report added: "The perpetual order is: positions must be held until retreat is ordered, and the order must be carried out at any price. Thus there are endless marches through night and darkness. . . . More than once entire regiments-and once an entire division-have had to fight a way through to our own lines...