Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richardson Labouisse of Wilton, Conn, became director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Beirut, and took on the thankless task of caring for more than 900,000 Arab refugees from Palestine. Labouisse gradually broke down Arab resistance to UNRWA, traveled all over Europe describing the plight of his refugees and gently dunning U.N. members for funds...
...most worried about losing their jobs, tend to favor drastic Government action, "With relatively little seniority or developed skills, these younger workers seem least secure. They also have plunged deepest into debt to buy new homes and autos." It will take a while before families in this plight do much buying of durable goods...
...human problem nagging the President most is that of jobless workers at the end of their unemployment-compensation benefits, which differ widely from state to state, ranging from a 16-week time limit in Florida to 30 weeks in Pennsylvania. It was in an effort to ease the plight of such workers that President Eisenhower invited the governors' committee to the White House, presented a plan under which the states could draw federal funds to extend unemployment compensation for 13 weeks. Although the new plan included a complex formula aimed at maintaining the delicate balance of federal-state relationships...
Class also brought fresh impact to its sidelight on the plight of the teacher who is so underpaid that he must find an extra job. In a faculty bull session one teacher remarked to a colleague: "Somebody told me at one time you were pumping gas and one of your students came in and asked for a tankful. How did you feel about it?" The reply: "Well, that doesn't happen very often, but it does bother you. I mean, they want you to wash the windowshield and check the oil-things like that. They give you the full...
...would not commit itself. Yet it was openly concerned about the plight of the miners. Its raw materials chief, Jesse C. Johnson, was re-examining the wisdom of the moratorium on mill construction, will report to the congressional committee in mid-March...