Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judge Hull, for example, compares the plight of the U.S. with a one-ocean navy to the embarrassment of a man with a shirt so short that when he pulls it down in front it exposes him behind, and vice versa. It was in a White House bathroom, the authors note gleefully, that Prime Minister Winston Churchill was sold the phrase "United Nations" by President Roosevelt. The President had fixed on it in bed before breakfast, shouted it through the bathroom door. The two biggest guns of democracy are now on such good terms that they can "say anything...
...Providence, R.I. Journal ran advertisements in five key-city Midwest newspapers, sent reprints to some 500 editors of other papers. The purpose: explain the East's plight, poll Midwest sentiment on rationing of gasoline and fuel oils. Responding by the hundreds, Midwesterners affirmed they were willing to accept rationing-when the reason for it is understood...
Students have literally been feeling the pinch of war by being forced to double up in rooms. Many already have received cards asking them to take in another person. Some tutors will now have to share the unfortunate plight of the undergraduates by decreasing the size of their quarters, also...
...Moscow top-flight military men of the United Nations were conferring (see p. 37), undoubtedly about Russia's plight, perhaps to arrange for entry of U.S. British forces from Persia to help defend the remainder of the Caucasus and keep open the Caspian as a supply route. In northern Persia the United Nations had collected men and war materials. Behind them were a string of air bases across Iraq and Persia, at Red Sea and Indian Ocean ports. The time might be at hand for a new move-if Russia consented, for American and British soldiers to join...
Inevitably closer to his thoughts than his love of ancient Greek Philosophy is his vital and personal interest in the plight of his fatherland in 1942, and in the affairs of his countrymen both here and abroad. If the Greeks can survive the war and the ravages of the Axis, he has great faith that they have a future in store for them as glorious as their past...