Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is not the action some people understandably cry for. But it is life or death for the victims of Hungary's heroic effort to be free. It is our way as private American citizens to identify ourselves with their cause, their plight and their children...
...Bailey performed the operation again, two days later, on a man of 52 in similar plight. Both patients were expected to leave the hospital this week. After studying them (and others to be operated on soon) for a few months, Dr. Bailey will know whether he has found an effective treatment for some, at least, of the hundreds of thousands who are disabled every year by heart attacks of this type...
Colombia's plight becomes all the more surprising when we remember that only three years ago, Colombians were hopeful that the newly established Rojas government would create a stable democracy which would finally enable the country to develop its vast natural resources. They hailed Rojas' ouster of arch-conservative President Laureano Gomez, who had fought to retain power despite lack of popular support, and supported his attempts to end the six-year-old civil war that was ravaging the thinly populated western plains. Immediately after seizing power, Rojas removed restraints on the press, and promised free elections and restoration...
INCOME: "They [the Democrats] express every American's concern for the plight of our low-income families. But they are careful not to mention that today's prosperity has reduced the number of such families to an alltime...
...treated with fair success by putting a tube in the spinal canal half way down the back and draining the fluid from the brain through the spinal canal into the urinary system. But this child, son of a Philadelphia industrial technician named John W. Holter. was in a worse plight because he had a barrier between the brain cavity and the spinal canal...