Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baldwins, the Chamberlains and all the other Victorians certainly are responsible for Britain's present plight. Illustrative of their complacency is this letter enclosed, although granted that the writer was loyal and conscientious. Although the writer died some months ago, I ask that you do not include his name if the letter is published...
...altogether possible that the Crimson's plight is not as bad as it would seem. Chub Peabody was injured early last week, and from the gloomy reports emanating from Dillon Field House it seemed that he would be lost for some time. The following day he was in uniform and the day after that went through a vigorous scrimmage...
...Have heard of your waterless plight. Crimson extends invitation to all Mount Holyoke girls to come to Cambridge and share our showers. Harvard men find best way to make friends is sharing common bath facilities. Now when you feel like girls in soap ads and when bathless Yalemen won't come within ten feet of you, Harvard wants to make friends. Our showers are big enough...
...unwarranted accumulation of 'priority' materials." While the Business Congress named no names, this might have been directed at automakers, who have had little trouble getting enough supplies for full production up to now. President Roosevelt himself (in a letter to Michigan's Representative Dingell) deplored the plight of small non-defense business, the prospect that huge, defense-glutted companies will emerge from the war bigger than ever...
...Britain's plight grew serious when by the end of April her wartime shipping losses totaled approximately: 1. 1,000,000 tons...