Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this country needs is a good 5? burnoose and two Sauds in every pot. Do you think a band of small businessmen, clad in their native costume (i.e., working clothes), could hit Generous John Foster for a small loan? If Saud can put his hand out, how about the plight of the small businessman? What with new taxes on trucks, new taxes on having over four employees, old taxes on telephones, travel, entertainment-just plain taxes ad nauseam. LOUISE BUCK ROBSHAM West Yarmouth, Mass...
...railroads' sorry plight comes largely from their own ham-handed public policies, the insulting behavior of their tip-hunting waiters, the overbearing conduct of conductors, their poorly cooked, generally high-priced meals, their grimy coaches, dismal and dirty stations, slow schedules. MILES HAMMOND Williston...
...your Jan. 28 issue, I read of the alarming plight of the not-so-great state of North Dakota and the possibility of a new name for it. I proffer as a solution: a merger of North and South Dakota, neither of which is overly productive, thereby leaving a vacancy in our Union to be filled by the productive, ever-growing territory of Alaska. JOHN J. JAVORONOK Gladwyne...
...lumbered down the runway into the darkness, lifted heavily off the ground and, slowly gaining altitude, went into an inexplicable left turn over the East River. Only twelve seconds after the takeoff, it steepened its turn and began to settle. Seconds later it hit the ground, burst into flames. Plight 823 was down on tiny Rikers Island in the middle of the river...
...Marin County, Calif, last week, young Mike Zeller, a senior at the Sir Francis Drake High School, added an observation of his own that is as good a summary as any of the plight of the American student: "We all have the feeling," says he, "that we're not going to get into the college we want to. When I was a sophomore, older kids told me that it was tough to get into college. But I didn't believe it. When you're a sophomore, you want to have fun. I wish somebody had made...