Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Basis of the new orientation of Australian foreign policy has been the realization that Australia's present plight, and future welfare, are problems which once concerned Britain and Australia, but which are now primarily the concern of the U.S. and Australia. With the Japanese massing for invasion, the Australians were desperate. If tough, blunt talk was needed, burly Herbert Vere Evatt, Minister for External Affairs, was the man to make it. Curtin dispatched him to Washington to plead Australia's case on the brief prepared by Casey...
...real joker is that the problem of estimating the sugar supply is not mathematical. It is military. For more than two-thirds of the U.S. sugar supply comes from offshore, and it takes precious ships to bring it in. The present plight of the East Coast, in fact, is thanks to U-boat activity in the Atlantic and Caribbean. The Japs, in occupying the Philippines, cut off about 900,000 tons a year for the U.S. Besides, the Jap's conquest of the Indies closed the last big source of sugar for Britain and probably for Russia (which lost...
...remembering the war, ,the average citizen could not feel justified in weeping, either over this advice or over his own plight. There were no new pillows to cry in, anyway: WPB had ordered all duck and goose feathers reserved for the Army...
...sure, has had a somewhat wavering effect on box office. (But no show has perished, save possibly the highbrow In Time to Come, which deserved to live.) The war has also had a slightly paralyzing effect on playwrights. Serious writers have found the world's present plight too big to cope with, yet only five out of 50-odd plays this season have tried to cope with it. Farces and comedies have flopped as fast, and been as feeble, as dramas, for the good reason that playwrights have shamelessly aped other men's hits, exploited worn-out formulas...
...simply cannot marry a man making only twenty-one dollars a month. That's not even undic money. It's silly even to dance with them; no future in it. And yet all there is left, unless she knows a handsome ensign, is the 4F Club. Brrr. What a plight for the womanhood of America. Should they starve for food with a soldier or starve for romance with a mentally, morally, and physically unfit specimen of the warlike...