Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desperation was no defense, and the long arm of the law soon grabbed him where his lapel should be. But upon hearing of his plight they took pity. He was listed as a sleepwalker...
...task of finding suitable places in America for Europe's displaced persons. Last week, Church World Service, an overseas relief agency for 20 Protestant and three Eastern Orthodox denominations, took a decisive step to make up the deficit: it launched a campaign to arouse Protestant interest in the plight of Europe's homeless. Designating June as "D.P. Action Month," C.W.S. asked each member church to join in furnishing the assurance of job, housing and transportation from port of arrival which the law requires before D.P.s can embark for America. For June C.W.S. set its goal...
...faded notice ably in its stronghold, the trade unions. "Today there is not much chance for us," admitted a Communist central committeeman in Rome last week. Then he added: "All we are doing is preparing for tomorrow." And the best hope for a Red tomorrow still lay in the plight of Italy's ill-paid, ill-fed, ill-housed masses...
When it comes to the why of Barbara's plight, however, the movie goes rapidly to pieces. Like most Hollywood efforts to pin Freudian labels on human weakness, this one clutters a fairly reasonable plot with murky gibberish...
...almost impossible to earn a living wage and still be honest. The young boy in this film makes more money on the black market than him father does in a factory. The sister takes to jitterbugging and wearing black-lace drawers. So when the Italian soldier comes home, the plight in which he finds him own family can be taken as somewhat typifying that of Italy at the time. "Revenge" was intended to carry a message of hope to the people of Italy. To this observer, distant in both time and space from the problem, it performs its task artlessly...