Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case, someone comes up to help it. For with its front flanked on two sides and reversed in the rear, there is little a unit can do to help itself. Military metabolism is just as much in danger of ceasing when larger units find themselves in the same plight...
...France and Britain, King Leopold's 'was a ghastly decision, for the gallant Belgian Army was the vital left wing of their pocketed troops. The Belgian capitulation made the plight of Maxime Weygand's northern armies nearly hopeless. For Weygand needed planes, tanks, fresh divisions, and above all time to reorganize his Army, a sixth of whose best men had been cut off. All he had now was his own resourcefulness and the courage of France...
...pride of every Hollander, portrayed a symbol of the country's desolate destruction after the wheels of Mars' juggernaut had trampled them. For a few days, the whole world's attention was focussed on Holland. Then, the war moved on. New battles took place and my country's plight no longer was expressed in the headlines of the day. Another nation had been added to those that had to appeal to the world for help...
...Whereas budget balancing has been invoked in connection with labor appropriations and social improvements, will the same argument be used in debating the war budget? Or is it that there is always enough money for a war, never enough to alleviate the sufferings of the workers, the plight of the unemployed, the fate of the great mass of the nation...
...Broke and hungry on Thanksgiving Day, 1905, McVittie shelled out two of his last three nickels for coffee & doughnuts in a Grand Island, Neb. cafe, vowed to eat a doughnut a day in memory of his plight, has done...