Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Gratangen, to head off German retreat through Björnfjell near the Swedish border, and preserve the ore railroad. The arrival at the border of 460 fugitive German "seamen" in civilian clothes, who said they were refugees from nine merchant ships sunk during the naval actions, betokened the plight of their soldier comrades under General Dietl, famed skier, organizer of winter sports at Garmwisch-Partenkirchen. The latter, called "The Bull" by his men (for his stubbornness), was said to have told his personal friend, Adolf Hitler, by radio telephone: "We have no ships. We have no artillery left...
Medicine Show (by Oscar Saul & H. R. Hays; produced by Carly Wharton & Martin Gabel) is a Living Newspaper-type play about U. S. health. Though less vividly dramatized than . . . one third of a nation or Power, it trenchantly exposes the medical plight of the U. S. poor. Its relentless statistician raps out some pretty disquieting facts: that of 1,400,000 annual deaths, 250,000 are preventable; that Chicago has just one free hospital; that 1 ,600 U. S. counties lack hospital facilities; that at Manhattan's Harlem Hospital four ambulances annually served 250,000 patients...
...doctors' end, Medicine Show reveals the back-breaking efforts of young medicos to make a living. Out of the plaints of impoverished sufferers and the plight of struggling practitioners, it frames a plea for socialized medicine, an outspoken indictment of the American Medical Association for barring...
...realism and fantasy seldom mix even in the Amazon jungle. Result: the plight of the miniature actors, dodging for their lives behind a huge can of pork & beans, peering up at a towering rooster or laboriously sawing themselves slices of gargantuan boloney, is less frightening than funny...
...figures will discuss the many work camps which are open to College students who don't mind hard work, and want to learn something about social problems existing in this country. One camp, for example, will be located in East Millsboro, Pennsylvania, where a study of the miner's plight in the bituminous coal industry...