Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest oil-production cut in Texas history, the Texas Railroad Commission last week slashed allowable output for July to 13 days, a drop of 384,631 bbl. a day. The state's independent producers seized on the record cut as an opportunity to dramatize the plight of the domestic oil industry, hard pressed by record imports from abroad and steadily mounting crude oil stocks. Four associations of independents fired off telegrams to Washington blaming the production cut on imports, warning that foreign oil is replacing domestic...
...ground other airmen, following radioed reports of Flugum's plight, ordered another approach. A T-33 jet trainer went aloft, slowed near to stalling speed as the pilot tried to lift Flugum with his wing so the crewmen aboard the C-123 would have an easier time of it. The trick failed, possibly because by this time the paratrooper was hanging limp and apparently unconscious...
...often facetiously attributed to the greater virtue and intelligence of the inhabitants of this part of the country, but actually there are more permanent reasons for the rise of the Democratic party in the region. The present administration's antipathy to the development of public power and to the plight of the farmer has certainly been detrimental to the Republican cause, as was especially evidenced in the power-conscious Northwest and in the Rocky Mountain farm states. Other factors are the Administration's unpopular hand-ling of Indian, reclamation, and forest affairs...
After reading "Masterpieces of Chinese Art" [May 6] and devouring every detail of Robert Crandall's excellent photographs, I sadly considered the plight of a world in which such lovely treasures must be stored away in concrete warehouses...
...small demur. Glowingly vital and magnetic, Actress Hiller could never really quite seem a colorless, mousy heiress, nor seems now an oversized half-freak. Her acting brings some of its most resonant moments to O'Neill's play, but never quite authenticates the plight of O'Neill's heroine. Doomed or bedeviled Wendy Hiller might seem, but misbegotten never...