Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cavalry and authentic 19th century cannon, stood by for four days as the October 1955 rains pelted them. Cost of the washout: $3,000. Back in their Manhattan workshop, the planners decided they could get big scope by closing down to the suggestion of epic Greek tragedy in the plight of Lee at Seminary Ridge, a majestic central figure brought down by circumstances beyond his control...
...plight of the peoples of Poland and Hungary became evident to the Harvard community this week when the PBH Drives Committee received a letter requesting aid from a resident of each of the two countries...
...Last week Dear Abby related the plight of a woman who complained: "My problem is my husband. He wears false teeth -uppers and lowers-and he thinks it is real funny to take them out at parties and do a Spanish dance, using them as castanets. Should I keep him away from parties or should I just tell him he isn't funny?" Advised Abby: "Let him have a good time. I think it is hysterical...
...satellites could blame their sorry economic plight directly on Russia, which conducts 1/5 of its foreign trade with Iron Curtain countries-mostly to its own advantage. Reversing the usual form of colonial exploitation, in which colonies are used as sources of raw materials, Russia feeds the satellites raw materials, takes the finished products they manufacture. Czechoslovakia, for example, did 5.5 billion crowns ($770,000,000) worth of trade with Russia in 1955, giving engineering products in return for metals, petroleum, rubber, timber...
Dean Feyzioglu's troubles began when he gently rebuked the government last month for blocking the promotion of a colleague who had founded a magazine critical of Turkey's economic plight. To Feyzioglu, the government's action against the professor was a serious blow "to the principle of university autonomy." In almost any other country such a remark might have gone unnoticed. But it was too much for Premier Adnan Menderes...