Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem for Stalin the statesman was to present the seriousness of the plight of Russia as an ally to Western leaders long suspicious of Stalin and his workers' State. Stalin, who had every reason to expect the city named for him to fall shortly after its heroic siege began on Aug. 24, desperately wanted aid from his allies. Stalin the politician made these desires the hope of the Russian people. He made them think that a continental second front had been promised to them, and thereby strengthened their will to hang...
Between Gona and Buna, both in U.S.Australian hands, Japs were still entrenched. General Douglas MacArthur called the Jap plight desperate, announced that "the last line" of Jap fortifications had been breached, indicated that it was only a matter of time before the U.S.Australian forces, now aided by light tanks, had the entire Buna area firmly in hand...
...plight of the 450 Freshmen now living in the Yard is the crisis in the absorption of the Freshman Year by the House system. Instructors in the major survey courses report that the class is apparently doing poorer work than its predecessors; the Yardlings themselves admit that after two months of College they still feel like outsiders in the Houses with which they are affiliated. Part of their uneasiness is due to inevitable uncertainty about the future; for this, the University can offer only advice and an aspirin. But it is not too late to correct the College's failure...
...discredit U.S. official spokesmen, they had a certain measure of success. The Office of War Information argued that there were sensible-but secret-reasons for withholding the fact that some flyers had landed in Japanese territory. If so, this did not excuse falsification, and it did not better the plight of the captured pawns...
...altogether forgotten was the plight of the Indian people, nor the necessity of keeping them on the side of the United Nations in Asia. This week 57 U.S. educators, writers, scholars and civic leaders petitioned President Roosevelt and China's Chiang Kai-shek to intervene. Their contention: "The time for mediation in India...