Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silly moment, James gravely agreed with a British friend that a certain garden at Cambridge University was "the most beautiful small garden in Europe." James loved the undistinguished quick rather less than the illustrious dead; nowhere in his travel accounts was there a jot of sympathetic indignation about the plight of Europe's poor and humble; Twain's letters are aflame with...
...Fearing that cartwheels might be scarce some day-the last batch was minted in 1935-West built up a reserve supply, apparently added the emergency store of deuces just in case the silver-dollar stockpile ran low. Jim West was no man to let himself get into the embarrassing plight of having to hand out ordinary $1 bills...
...emergency phone call to Washington told President Eisenhower of the Nixons' plight. Deeply concerned, the President ordered a military rescue operation (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But before the troops were on the way, Venezuela's five-man junta had ringed the residence with 400 soldiers. Mobs were still roaming the streets, and the Nixons were virtual prisoners in the residence...
...course for the U.S. is to erect further tariff barriers against foreign commodity imports. While the victims of the commodity slide do not blame the U.S. for the falling prices, they do blame it for the quotas and tariffs -and the threat of more -which can only make their plight more painful. The best long-range solution to the economic problems of the world's underdeveloped lands is a free market for trade in which they are able to take full advantage of their abundant materials and low costs, thus earn themselves the money they need to develop...
...Hate-Autos Year." If prices are part of Detroit's trouble, they are far from all of it. For a nation on wheels, the plight of the auto industry is a matter of intense popular concern. Many a U.S. male prizes his auto above all other possessions-sometimes even his wife. Since there are 80 million drivers, there are 80 million experts on cars-and naturally, on the industry that produces them. Thus Detroit has become the center of a vast family argument. Everyone has something to say about the 1958 cars. Some of the charges are right...