Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Egypt smiled because Rommel stopped, but the truth was that Egypt's plight was almost as desperate as when the German charged into the El Alamein funnel. He was still there, he was always dangerous, he was nearly intact. Moreover, he had a card up his sleeve, and it was sticking halfway out of his green gabardine cuff: parachute and glider troops concentrated in Crete, ready to help him by an assault from the rear...
...Remarkable Andrew" is far from trite, but equally dull. Its rather weird plot concerns the plight of Andrew Long, a strait-laced city employee who is framed by crooked politicians. With the unseen help of the ghost of his namesake Andy Jackson (not to mention the spirits of Washington, Marshall, Jefferson, Franklin, etc.) Andrew Long finally manages to extricate himself. But for a while in the picture even his friends wonder a bit when they observe him talking to people they can't see. Meanwhile the audience is just as baffled by the superfluity of ghosts whose figures they...
DESIGN IN EVIL-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Shanghaied Manhattan maiden on an outbound motor cruiser is in a sad plight when a psychiatrist insists that she is schizophrenic, and the subsequent stabbing of a frightened woman is charged to her account. A tempest-tossed thriller with interesting psychological overtones...
...China the spring-legged fury with which the Jap pressed his drives showed that he knew last week that he had begun a battle in which his greatest enemy was time. For China was in a desperate plight, and the Jap worked fast to make it hopeless...
Benny's plight has not been shared by those of his rivals who depend on punch rather than finesse-particularly ex-Hoofer Bob Hope, who has been going great guns before soldier audiences. Last week Hope put on his tenth straight broadcast from a training camp (location censored). Benny has found that incalculable whoops and whistles upset his expertly worried lines. No ad-libber, he has to stick to his painfully prepared script, feels that a lot of mugging thrown in for a visual audience is a sin against his radio listeners...