Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curious Kashmiri newsmen Nehru frankly explained his long avoidance of Kashmir: he had for a long time been "pained and hurt" by the plight of his onetime friend Sheik Abdullah who, with Nehru's reluctant consent, has now spent four years in prison for having flirted with the idea of Kashmiri independence rather than union with India. When it came to explaining why Nehru had ended his boycot-since Sheik Abdullah still sits in jail-Nehru was somewhat less frank. Ostensibly, he had come to look at the receding floodwaters that recently inundated 700 Kashmiri villages. In fact...
...World War II blitz, that put the British polio picture in focus. With 87 cases in a population of 267,000, it was not the worst-hit city - Maidstone (pop. 55,000) had at least as many cases, and Lincoln (pop. 70,000) had 83. But Coventry's plight was clearest on the record. In July, with 54 cases logged, Coventry had received only enough vaccine to inoculate half the 14,000 top-priority children (aged three to nine) who had registered for shots. The Ministry of Health refused more vaccine. Reason: there was no stockpile to draw from...
...well-intentioned as Mr. de Caussin's "explosive charge of thought" was, it is regrettable that his tragic plight lends emotional influence to his appeal. The ironical probability is that the man whose atrocity prompted such remarks would react with similar disgust to the sexual stimuli that Mr. de Caussin denounces. Let's open our eyes to the brand of pseudo-moralistic views that produces such warped personalities...
Pivot of the turnabout was Arkansas' hardworking, international-minded Brooks Hays, whose plight showed how personal pressures and preoccupations can affect the voting of even a highly conscientious legislator. Hays had been so busy with the unfamiliar duties and responsibilities of his new post as lay president of the Southern Baptist Convention that he could find little time to do his homework on the new foreign-aid program. On the committee's first go-round, he instinctively voted against a sharp departure from Congress' customary practice of year-to-year authorizations for foreign aid. But Hays felt...
Vacationing in Switzerland with his Queen Soraya, Iran's Shah cabled orders for all-out relief measures as reports trickled out of the devastated area describing the plight of rural survivors, whose perils included not only thirst, disease and famine, but packs of hungry, maddened wolves. The bodies of more than 2,000 Iranians have already been recovered, and aid teams have yet to reach most of the stricken area...